US Paratroopers are briefed with sand table in Nadzab, New Guinea. Paratroopers prepare ammunition for machine guns. Equipment is checked. Men put on their chutes. Long convoy of trucks loaded with Paratroopers moves out of the area. Paratroopers at the airport put on their parachutes and equipment. They board planes.
Planes in flight in Nadzab, New Guinea. Paratroopers seated for jump signal. They get up. Hook their static line and jump out of the door. Ground covered with paratroopers. Smoke seen in background.
Arrival of units of 7th Australian Division at an air field in Nadzab, New Guinea. A C-47 plane lands at Nadzab airfield. Planes and units of 7th Australian Division on the airfield. The troops unload the plane. The C-47 takes off. Troops disembark from the plane and unload supplies. The plane is in flight. At the airfield the troops unload the planes. A soldier erects a direction board which reads 'Assembly Area' and another soldier holds a direction board which reads 'Transit Camp'. A C-47 takes off. Planes and soldiers at the airfield.
A runway in Nadzab, New Guinea. The runway and landscape seen through a side window as a plane takes off. Three planes on an airfield. Smoke in the background. A smashed Douglas C-47 Skytrain.
US Army Colonel Lief J. Sverdrup takes breakfast in a jungle at Nadrab. Soldiers bring him food. A soldier walks to a stream and gets a bucket of water.
A British soldier in a jungle in Nadzab, New Guinea. The British soldier washes his face in a stream.