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Newsreel "Australians and Americans drive Japs from Lae" during World War 2
American B-25 aicraft bomb Japanese positions in New Guinea in advance of operations by American and Australian troops. Explosions seen on ground as bombs impact targets. Low altitude aerial view of destroyed Japanese troop transport ships and cargo ships near the shores of New Guinea. Naval bombardment of Lae is seen from aboard Allied invading ships. Australian soldiers go ashore. General MacArthur confers Lieutenant General George Kenney and other officers. U.S. paratroopers on ground at an airfield prepare equipment and ready for jump into enemy territory. Scene with close up of General MacArthur smiling. Paratrooper C-47 aircraft lined in rows. U.S. Army paratroopers loading into aircraft and C-47s taking off. Aerial view from inside a C-47 as equipment and men jump toward target area of Lae. Hundreds of parachutes seen in sky. A serviceman holding a motion picture film camera films the view of parachutes through the open aircraft door. View on ground 5 days later as Australian Army troops join up with American forces on a captured Japanese airfield. Close up views of faces of Australian soldiers. The soldiers cut tall grass at landing fields to prepare for arriving DC-3 aircraft. DC-3 landing with supplies unloaded by Australian troops for use in the drive into Lae and Salamaua New Guinea.
United States Air Force delivers rations to United States and Australian forces, Papuan locals, meal preparation with ration during Salamaua-Lae campaign in WWII
Title card reads, "Aussies and Yanks." Military aircraft fly over a field near Salamaua, near Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea during the Salamaua-Lae campaign in World War 2. United States Mitchell B-25 bombers fly toward Salamaua to deliver supplies to Allied forces and attack Japanese supply lines, flying over wrecked ship at sea. United States B-25 aircraft flying over mountains near Salamaua. Australian soldiers wade through muddy jungle near Salamaua, Papua New Guinea. Australian soldiers explore through tall grass. A United States Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrain drops supplies for Allied ground troops over Salamaua, Papua New Guinea. Papuan locals pick up supplies and rations that fell from Douglas C-47 Skytrain. United States and Australian soldiers prepare a meal using pocket stove. Australian soldier drinks from oval shaped container.
Soldiers pack supplies and parachutes at an Australian Parachute Packing Depot in Papua New Guinea.
March 1943: A map shows Salamaua in Papua New Guinea. An aircraft drops supplies with parachutes over hills. An Australian parachute packing depot. Soldiers pack parachutes on tables in rows. Stacked Australian parachutes to deliver rations, American parachutes used for Ammunition, and 24 foot parachutes for regulation. White parachutes used for medical supplies, blue ones used for rations and red used for ammunition supplies. Aerial view of Goodview, an area of conflict. A soldier radios the requirements to base. Another soldier delivers the plan to the depot. Soldiers pack mortar ammunition. The fuses and sheets are packed together in boxes. Soldiers put boxes into sacks, tie the sacks and attach parachutes. Soldiers pack canned meat: lay straw in big cans, put small cans into those, seal the big cans, secure them with a wiring machine, and attach parachutes. Sacks of rice are put into copper sacks, their mouths tied. Soldiers pack rations including onions, bacon and potatoes for delivery. Supplies are loaded onto trucks and transferred to the aerodrome. (World War II period).
C-47 Skytrains and P-38 Lightning fighters drop supplies with parachutes over Greenview in Papua New Guinea.
March 1943: Australian and American soldiers in Salamaua in Papua New Guinea. Trucks loaded with supplies move to the aerodrome. The Depot officers radio A3 of the 5th Air Force Headquarters, who in turn contact the 54th Troop Carrier Wing for airplanes. Brigadier General Prentiss monitors the mission with Colonel Hampton. Board shows duties of the Troop Carrier Wing. The pilots and crew are briefed for the mission. Soldiers leave in jeeps at dawn for the aerodrome. The pilots are given the time for take off. Supplies are loaded. Planes are ordered off ground. Douglas C-47 Skytrains and P-38 Lightning fighters taxi and take off. Pilot scouts the skies for change in weather and danger. Planes over drop area in Greenview, marked by parachutes from earlier drops on the ground. Soldiers put supplies onto ramps and prepare for the drop. Pilot gives the signal and supplies are dropped. (World War II period).
Soldiers drop supplies from C-47 Skytrains over Salamaua in Papua New Guinea.
March 1943: Soldiers in Douglas C-47 Skytrains prepare to drop supplies for American and Australian troops over Salamaua in Papua New Guinea. Aerial view of drop point in Salamaua with parachutes from previous drops visible on the ground. Supplies with and without parachutes descend to the ground. Planes fly low over the drop area. Parachutes with medical, food and ammunition supplies. C-47s fly low over the drop area. Planes fly over the peninsula. (World War II period).
Bob Hope and his USO Troupe visit a U.S. Navy base on Mios Woendi island, Schouten Islands, Papua New Guinea, during World War II.
Bob Hope and members of his USO troupe ride on a PT boat during visit to entertain U.S. Navy personnel during World War 2. In opening scene, Bob Hope doffs his pith helmet as he strolls past the camera to climb aboard a PT boat (PT-331) of U.S. Navy Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 21, where several naval officers greet him. Members of Hope's USO troupe, Patty Thomas, and Francis Langford, step from jeeps to board the PT boat. Next, the two are seen in the cockpit of the boat next to its captain, Lieutenant Kermit W. Montz, USNR, as the boat speeds along in the water. Among sailors occasionally glimpsed behind them is Radioman 1st Class bill Thielen. In change of scene, Bob Hope climbs out a hatch, holding onto his pith helmet to keep it from blowing off. The boat's number, 331 is clearly displayed on superstructure behind him. Various Navy sailors on deck. (Note: Squadron 21 received a Presidential Unit Citation for outstanding performance during the Huon Peninsula Campaign against Japanese forces from October 1943 to March 1944.)
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