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American and Australian soldiers examine captured Japanese guns in Buna, New Guinea during the Battle of Buna-Gona.

A film on the Battle of Buna-Gona in New Guinea during World War II. American and Australian soldiers examining captured Japanese guns. A soldier holding a gun kneeling on the ground. Other soldiers standing around him and watching. A soldier holding another captured gun. A few soldiers moving on a beachhead. Dead body of a Japanese soldier. Japanese prisoners moving along a forest trail escorted by soldiers.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066262
Allied soldiers fight against the Japanese and take over the island of Buna, New Guinea during World War II.

Allied troops during the Battle of Buna island in New Guinea during World War II. Allied soldiers fire artillery in a wooded area. Tanks advance through a jungle. Soldiers in a trench. Allied soldiers advance across the forest. Dead Japanese soldiers in a trench. Allied soldiers relax after taking over the island of Buna.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066018
U.S. troops advance through jungles and Japanese planes score direct bomb hit on U.S. supply craft in New Guinea.

U.S. troops fight Japanese Army in New Guinea. The troops advance from Kokoda through New Guinea jungles towards Japanese bases of Buna and Gona. A U.S. light field gun fired on Japanese positions. Japanese planes from Rabaul score direct bomb hit on a U.S. supply craft which blows up. New Guinea natives bring in wounded U.S. soldiers. A U.S. cruiser sinks two Japanese destroyers. Japanese prisoners on the deck of the cruiser. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047524
Australian General Sir Thomas Blamey and Lt. Gen. Eichelberger in New Guinea during World War II

Scenes in Buna, New Guinea, during the battle of Buna-Gona,fought by American and Australian forces in World War 2. An American General and Australian General, Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander of the Allied Land Forces in the Southwest Pacific, conducting an inspection in the jungle. General Blamey and U.S. Army Lieutenant General Robert L. Eichelberger with another Australian commander. General blamey beside a jeep in a marshy area of the jungle. Trees in the marshy area in the background. The men are talking. Other officers in the background. The Generals driving in a jeep on a jungle trail. American soldiers throwing grenades and concealing themselves among the trees. Several dead Japanese in a trench. A catholic chaplain conducting services in the jungle. The soldiers and officers gathered in front of the chaplain. General Blamey and General Eichelberger walking on a trail in the jungle. Other men following the Generals. Inside captured Japanese fortifications, General Blamey inspects a Japanese Taisho heavy machine gun. General Eichelberger joins him. They also inspect a long barreled Japanese artillery piece.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066259
Highlights of the Allied New Guinea campaign against the Japanese in World War II

The Allied campaign across New Guinea and onward to the Philippines during World War 2. U.S. warships firing their guns at night. Flashes illuminate the blackness. Bombs dropping from an aircraft bomb bay. Bombs exploding on stretch of jungle near water. A U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 bomber in flight View rearward from very low flying USAAF bomber as it bombs it drops explode behind. U.S. troops making amphibious assault on New Guinea. Map showing path of Allied attacks from Australia, across New Guinea from Port Moresby to Buna and on to the Admiralty Islands, cutting off Japanese-held Rabaul, New Britain. Map shows Allied forces moving towards Japanese strongholds at Wewak and along the North shore of New Guinea and bypassing Wewak to strike at Hollandia. General Douglas MacArthur is seen aboard a U.S. warship conferring with American and Philippine officers. Annimated map shows Allied assaults on Japanese positions along the coast from Hollandia, to Warde, Biak, and beyond, stepping along towards the Philippines. Views of numerous fallen Japanese soldiers numbering more than 150 thousand dead. Crosses in battlefield cemetery at graves of some of the more than 13 thousand Allied military who lost their lives during the campaign. A soldier paying respects at one of the gravesites. Admiral Chester Nimitz with members of his staff at his headquarters in Hawaii. U.S. Navy F4F aircraft launching from an American aircraft carrier. American aircraft bombing Japanese positions on an atoll. U.S. warships bombarding Japanese positions with their heavy guns. Admiral Nimitz standing with Admiral William Halsey. More Navy gunfire and amphibious assault scenes. Map showing places where Allied forces had to battle the Japanese, including, Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands, Kwajalein, in the Marshals, Saipan, and Guam in the Marianas, and Palau to complete the "bridging" of the Pacific to the doorstep of the Philippines.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028169
Battle of Papua New Guinea in World War II

Animated map shows New Guinea and Papau. Areas occupied by American and Australian Forces , seeking to dislodge Japanese Forces, at Buna and Gona, are shown. General Douglas MacArthur, arrives at Papua. He strolls through an American/Australian milltary camp in the jungle. He is dressed in a perfectly pressed uniform, smoking a cigar. (Narrator states he arrived to take personal charge of the offensive.) Closeup of MacArthur. American troops flown in from Australia, advance toward the Japanese positions at Buna. Another scene shows Australian troops making their way through jungles as they advance over the Owen-Stanley mountain range toward Gona. Australian troops fire mortars and one seen firing a Bren light machine gun. An American soldier firing an M1919 Browning machine gun. More views of Allied soldiers firing rifles and machine guns, including a water-cooled Browning M1917 gun. A bomb or shell explodes at a Japanese position. Scene shifts to Allied Military Headquarters in New Guinea, where staff plot information on large status maps about Japanese reinforcements arriving in the Bismark Sea, to bolster the enemy’s defenses. An Australian pilot runs to his Spitfire airplane, and American pilots rush to their B-25 Mitchell bomber, named “Dirty Dora.” An Australian Douglas A-26 invader airplane taking off. The B-25, Mitchell bomber (Dirty Dora) taking off. A USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress bomber taking off. More Allied aircraft taking off and in flight, including a formation of Australian A-26 invader airplanes. An Australian Airspeed Oxford training aircraft is seen diving . View from cockpit of an A-26 Invader airplane firing machine guns at Japanese ship. View of Allied warplane dropping bombto skip a Japanese ship. Bombs explode. Aircraft strafing Japanese ship. Various views of smoke rising from struck many Japanese ships. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051761