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American and Australian troops fight the Japanese in Papua New Guinea.
Screen Magazine film 'Aussies and Yanks' about American and Australian troops in Papua New Guinea. 1942-43: U.S. 5th AAF B-24 Liberators flying over Port Moresby towards Salamaua. A destroyed ship in the water. Australian troops advance through the thick jungles. U.S. C-47 Skytrains drop supplies with parachutes over target areas. Native bearers collect the supplies and carry them to the front. Troops prepare and eat hot food at a camp in the jungle. Soldiers advance through the jungle amidst enemy fire. They capture Japanese machine gun nests. Load shells and fire anti aircraft guns and machine guns. Dead Japanese soldiers. The wounded Allied soldiers are taken to safety on stretchers across the Francisco River by the natives. An Australian soldier leads a another who is wounded and blinded with his eyes bandaged. They cross a stream and slog through deep mud in the jungles. Wounded soldiers board a plane at an emergency air field to take them to a hospital. Australian soldiers in rain gear,with heads bowed, hold a funeral service at a battlefield cemetery for fallen comrades. A chaplain reads from a prayer book. Soldiers read from a Bible at a grave for their comrades. Reinforcements and supplies are loaded into a C-47 plane at Moresby. Closeup of an American pilot and an Australian co-pilot in the cockpit. View of the aircraft taking off. Closeup view of a C-46 transport in flight. A C-46 making a wheels up landing on a jungle airstrip. If skids along the runway and when it stops, Australian troops exit quickly through its large portside cargo doors and walk about. It is clear that no one was injured during the event. American and Australian soldiers moving through jungles and firing mortars and Browning M1919 machine guns from set positions in the foliage. (World War II period).
U.S. soldiers relax before embarking onto LSTs on the Admiralty Islands in Papua New Guinea during World War II.
Allied troops on the Admiralty Islands in Papua New Guinea during World War II. Troops of the 5th Cavalry Regiment and 1st Cavalry Division arrive at the beachhead at Cape Sudest in a truck. Troops unload and await embarkation onto LSTs ( Landing Ship Tanks). Allied soldiers seated on the beach smoke, examine rifles, rest and play a portable phonograph. The soldiers embark onto the LSTs. The soldiers with full field equipment cross a small bridge. A small craft at anchor. Soldiers at the rail of a ship. A number of LSTs lined along the beach.
A convoy of Allied ships arrives and equipment is unloaded at a beach on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea during World War II.
Allied troops aboard a ship on their way to Manus Island in Papua New Guinea during World War II. U.S. soldiers on the deck of an LST (Landing Ship Tank) underway in the Pacific Ocean. A soldier with a pet cockatoo. View of helmsman at the wheel. View from porthole of troops on the deck of the LST . Closeup of two playing chess. Glimpse of ship's Coast Guard officers on the bridge. Sailor in the Crow's nest. Glimpse of other ships in the convoy. Sailors man antiaircraft guns on deck. View of interesting cloud formations over the water as seen from ship's deck. Soldiers, antiaircraft guns, and another ship, silhouetted against sky at dawn or sunset. More shipboard views and views of the convoy. Landing craft head toward the shore of Manus Island. Several subchasers pass at high speed. Smoke rising from Manus Island. A Hahan-Dunlap class destroyer, at anchor. View from camera LST as it and others approach the shore of Manus Island. Closeups of LSTs at the shore, with numerous palm trees on the beach. Beach covered with men and equipment. Truck drives off an LST and heads ashore where camp is already well established with tents.
Indian Punjab soldiers freed from Japanese prison camp are interviewed by Australian soldiers in Senai, New Guinea, during World War II
Indian Punjabi soldiers freed from Japanese prison camp, are seated in shade under wing of a U.S. Army Air Corps L-4 Grasshopper airplane, at an air field in Senai, Papua New Guinea, during World War 2. They are being interviewed by an Australian Sergeant and an officer. The Punjab former prisoners have been provided uniforms including ranger hats. (They have short hair and no beards, so they may include Sikhs, Dogras, Pathans, and Punjabi Muslims, but haven't yet obtained material for their traditional turbans.) The Sergeant makes notes and sketches on a pad as the escaped POWs provide information about their experiences and information of possible value regarding Japanese forces. Scene shifts to the Punjab soldiers sitting in a grass-roofed hut, with the native Chief of Senai. Several of them sit in in front of the hut, smoking long-stemmed native pipes. The Senai Chief poses with a Punjab Sergeant. Two Stinson L-5 airplanes take off from the Senai field. A group of liberated prisoners prepares and eats a meal.
A U.S. Army Air Force C-47 lands and taxis in Wau, Papua New Guinea during World War II.
The U.S. Army Air Force Troops Carrier Command in Wau, Papua New Guinea during World War II. A soldier at a typing machine. Insignia of the U.S. Army Air Force Troops Carrier Command. Animated map shows Troops Carrier Command advancing towards U.S. air bases in Papua New Guinea and Australia. An open field. Mountains in the background. A U.S. Army Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrain lands and taxis.
Royal New Zealand Air Force P-40 aircraft operating on Torokina Air Strip, Bougainville in World War II
Allied flight operations at Torokina Air Strip on Bougainville Island during World War 2. Pilots of the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) gather near a tent on Bougainville, Papua, New Guinea, during World War 2. Two drink cups of water from a canvas Lister bag. View of control tower silhouetted against light sky background with tents clustered on ground below. A P-40, with RNZAF markings, taxis past the camera and is then seen on the active runway. A ground crewman waves on three more RNZAF P-40s as they taxi.
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