A film on the Battle of Buna-Gona in New Guinea during World War II. A map showing distance of Buna from Australia and Port Moresby. Thick jungles in Buna-Gona. American soldiers arriving in aircraft. The troops in trucks. An aircraft in flight. The soldiers inside the aircraft. Men trained in Australia. The aircraft arrives at a field. Australian soldiers get out of the aircraft. The soldiers and Papuan natives in the field. The natives carrying supplies move across a marshy area in the jungle. The soldiers holding guns crossing a water body. The soldiers moving across a bridge. The soldiers among the trees. The soldiers and the natives working to build a log bridge in the jungle. An M-3 tank moving on the bridge with a soldier atop the tank. Other soldiers watching the tank. Engineers building another bridge in the jungle. The Papuan natives carrying the supplies move on a path in the jungle. The natives wading through a water body. The 114th Engineers building a native-type hut. Wounded soldiers are carried on stretchers on the bridges by the natives and are evacuated. The soldiers and the natives beside the hut drinking from cups. The natives watch the soldiers. Several soldiers seated on the ground. A few soldiers inside the hut planning their action.
Australian soldiers drive a military jeep rashly in Australia. Four soldiers seated in a jeep drive away. A soldier drives a jeep rashly and make it jump over raised earth. Another soldier drives a jeep at a great speed and loses control. An upturned jeep as soldier looks at it. (World War II period).
United States Land Lease tanks maneuver in Australia during World War II. United States regiment of Land Lease Tanks lined up on a field. Soldiers get on the top of a tank. Tanks move ahead on a field as an Australian dive bomber drops bombs amidst tanks during the maneuver. The tanks move over a rugged terrain during the maneuver.
The 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron in Australia during World War 2. A camera repair truck driving up to an airplane. Camera repairmen load magazines in a United States Army Air Force P-38 Lightning photographic airplane (P-38E/F-4 Lightning serial 41-2156, "Limpin' Lizzie"). A pilot ( possibly 2LT Harold Moffat) arrives in a jeep and inspects the airplane. A gasoline truck fills the tank on the airplane. The pilot climbs on a wing and puts on a parachute and then gets in the cockpit. The pilot seated in the cockpit. He does a radio check with the communication tent. The P-38 warms up. The aircraft taxis.
The 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron in Australia during World War 2. A United States Army Air Force P-38 Lightning photographic airplane returns from a mission. The airplane taxis on an airfield. A camera truck follows the airplane for exposed film. Camera repairmen take out magazines from the airplane. The pilot climbs out of the airplane. Men load exposed magazines in the truck on the way to a laboratory.
The 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron in Australia during World War II. Interior of a laboratory. A camera repairman brings exposed film to Drafting Chief Sergeant J. M. Brown. He turns it over to the Lab Section Chief Sergeant Robt Peterson for processing. The Drafting Chief marks the time of arrival on a lab operations chart. Two Sergeants letter negatives and plot the location of negatives on a large wall map. The wall map shows Rabaul.
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