'Letter from Buna'. A U.S. Army soldier writes a letter during World War II, while seated under a tarp in rain in a jungle area. U.S. Army and Army troops from Australia on the Buna campaign in New Guinea. Troops assemble at Port Moresby, New Guinea. A corduroy road is constructed in jungles. Supplies dropped from the air. Dense forests in the background. Firing on Japanese from beach positions during Battle of Buna-Gona. Dead bodies of Japanese soldiers on beach and in trench positions that were overrun by allies. Thin and emaciated Japanese POWs (Prisoners Of War) sit on the ground. Native people carry injured men on stretchers to native huts. U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur seen speaking with Australian General Thomas Blamey.
Strafing and bombing on Hopoi, New Guinea. Three planes near a coast line. The ocean and coastline below. Planes in flight. Ships at sea. Barges with Australia's 9th Division. The coastline and landscape. Smoke in the background. Ships near the coast. Views of the landscape. (World War II period).
Prewar and early World War 2 conditions of the British in Great Britain. War ammunition for Britain transported from the United States to Britain as part of lend lease plan. Also war materiel sent the other way around from the United Kingdom to the United States, as the war progressed. A map showing the path between the United States and Great Britain through the Atlantic Ocean. Tanks for Russia from Britain. Aircraft and guns for the United States by Lend Lease. Tons of food and clothing in large containers for troops in Britain. Clusters of houses and buildings. Two men on a bridge. A lane in Britain. People in the lane. Tanks prepare for war. British soldiers in uniform. A woman seated at a vanity putting on lipstick makeup. Men and women in the streets in England. A man turns to notice the legs of a woman as she walks by. View of legs of many women walking by, not wearing stockings due to rationing. Brief shot of driver in a car in the United States as he hands his gas ration ticket to the gas station attendant. Back in England, scene as a man goes to a pub for whiskey. The pub keeper laughs at him as there is none. Men in a field harvesting grains for making industrial alcohol. Soldier painting word "Hitler" onto a bomb shell. Cartons of whiskey being transported to the United States as pay for the material that comes in to Britain. A man opens cartons from the U.S. with 'Made in U.S.A.' painted on it. Images of American made industrial machine goods purchased by the British, including machinery signs for "Cincinnati Bickford", "The Ohio Machine Tool Company", "Niles Tool Works, Hamilton Ohio", "The Cincinnati Planer Co.", "American Hole Wizard", and "Barnes Drill Company, Rockford, Illinois" A woman worker moves a large planer or drill press into position. Crane at a ship dock is seen moving a large wooden crate with "Ford" label on it. A man goes to buy cigarettes. A 'No cigarettes today' board. If there were cigarettes he would have paid the cost of the cigarettes and the tax to the shopkeeper. Close up view of coins on a table and large portion going to British taxes to pay for war. A newspaper headline which says "Britain spends 49,000,000 per day on war." Several industrial plants in Britain, with smoke and pollution rising from chimneys and stacks during high output war effort. Laborers working at a construction site, including brick layers, who pay 29% tax. Rich men who pay 97½ % tax: A man in a nice car parked in front of a church. He leads a bride in a wedding gown and possibly the Bride's father toward the doors of the church. Various views of British workers and workmen walking in and out of factories. British citizens in ration lines. Sheep being herded on pasture land in Australia. Vessels in ocean used by the British for supplies to Russia. Aircraft from the U.S. on board a ship, and British troops arriving on a ship dock.
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 aircraft lands and taxis.
U.S. Army Air Forces operations in the Pacific during World War 2. Animated map of world shows U.S. Army Air Forces locations. Formation of Us Army Air Forces B-17s in flight. Animation shows expansion of Japanese holdings in the Pacific Ocean. Animation shows location of U.S. 5th Air Force. Mechanics work on early model of B-17s of 5th Air Force at air base in Australia. Japanese convoy underway in the Coral Sea. Action of Battle of Coral Sea by U.S. Navy and Australian Navy ships and aircraft. Bombs away view as B-17 in flight drop bombs. Japanese vessels in water being bombed. U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber in flight. U.S. Army Air Forces pilots board P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft. U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell bombers' engines starting. B-17 in flight. Formation of RAF (Royal Air Force) Beaufort bombers in flight. Interiors of aircraft shows Australian pilots at controls. Japanese convoy in Bismarck Sea. Australian and U.S. aircraft attacking at very low altitude ("mast high") to "skip bomb" the Japanese ships. Interiors of aircraft shows gunners strafing ships. Bombing of Japanese ships.
U.S. Army Air Forces operations in Pacific theater during World War 2. Animation shows locations of U.S. 13th Air Force on New Caledonia and U.S. 5th Air Force on Australia. Map shows Hawaii. Main gate at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu. U.S. 7th Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft takes off from Hickam AFB. Animation shows the flight of bombers. Jeeps along a jungle highway. Sign on tree reads 'Ohare Field'. Gun crew clean machine guns. 75 mm canon in nose of a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 being cleaned by ground crew. B-25 takes off from Coral airstrip. B-25s in formation. B-25s in flight firing cannons. B-25s strafing Japanese airfields.