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Jerry Colonna and Bob Hope perform for U.S. soldiers in Bougainville, Solomon Islands during World War II.
American entertainers in Bougainville, Solomon Islands during World War II. Comedian Bob Hope acts as the Master of the Ceremony and introduces comedian Jerry Colonna. Jerry sings a song as Tony Romano plays a guitar. Bob Hope and a man perform to amuse U.S. soldiers.
Frances Langford performs for U.S. soldiers in Bougainville, Solomon Islands during World War II.
American entertainers in Bougainville, Solomon Islands during World War II. Comedian Bob Hope acts as the Master of the Ceremony and introduces singer Frances Langford. Hope and Langford crack a few jokes to entertain U.S. soldiers. Langford sings and Tony Romano plays a guitar behind her.
Movies are transported for soldiers who watch a film on Bougainville Island during World War II.
Work of the United Service Organizations (USO) on Bougainville Island during World War II. Soldiers enter a theater. They watch a movie. Soldiers set up a projector system in a camp. Tents in the background. The soldiers dance. An aircraft takes off. Crates of movies unloaded from the aircraft. A soldier sits on a truck. Soldiers come out of a foxhole. A board outside a tent reads 'Bougainville Roxy Theater, tonights feature'. The soldiers enter the tent. Soldiers carrying tables and chairs walk. A soldier gets seated.
General MacArthur arrives and talks to officers at Port Moresby, New Guinea during World War II.
Allied Supreme Commander for the Pacific General Douglas MacArthur in Port Moresby, New guinea during World War II. General MacArthur get off the plane and talks to Australian Commander-in-Chief Sir Thomas Blamey. Officers gt into a jeep and leave. Jeep drives past a local village. General Macarthur drives past rows of native men and women. General MacArthur arrives at a camp and drinks coffee.
Royal New Zealand Air Force operations on Torokina Air Strip, Bougainville Island in World War II.
Flight operations at Torokina Air Strip on Bougainville Island during World War 2. Pilot of Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) Curtiss P-40 aircraft signals that he is going to start engine. He dons goggles and goes about starting engine. A group of RNZAF pilots conversing near one of their P-40s. Most of the pilots light up cigarettes. Camera focuses on New Zealand shoulder patch on one of the group. Scene shifts to active runway, where an RNZAF F4U Corsair aircraft takes off followed by an RNZAF Grumman TBF Avenger aircraft landing.
Flight operations on Torokina Air Strip, Bougainville Island, during World War II
Flight operations at Torokina Air Strip, Bougainville Island during World War 2. An airman refuels the drop tank on a P-39 Airacobra fighter aircraft. He closes the lid of the fuel tank. Airmen place the hose back on fuel truck.. Brief glimpse of a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) F4U Corsair aircraft taxiing past. A United States Army Air Forces Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft taxiing.