Dutch-Indonesian pact signed in New Guinea. Indonesian and Netherlands officials sign a pact on the administration of New Guinea which is claimed by both countries. The United Nations is to administer the country until Indonesia takes over.
Mechanics servicing P-40 fighter aircraft on what is most likely 4-mile Strip on New Guinea. Date is probably late 1942. "Scatterbrain" was the name painted a P-40 flown by Captain George Manning of the 7th Fighter Squadron, which was based at Rogers Airfield, Port Moresby, New Guinea, during 1942-43, during World War Two.
U.S. Army nurses going in and exiting their quarters building on New Guinea during World War 2, Some inside the barracks tend to their personal needs, such as combing their hair. In a personal touch one nurse has two Raggedy Ann dolls and a baby doll on her pillow. Outside, on duty, a nurse takes the temperature of an ambulatory patient. Inside a large tent hospital, nurses tend to patients on cots. A nurse assists a New Guinea native boy on crutches with a bandaged leg. Behind them is a tent labeled "Surgery personnel only. Keep out." View inside the surgery tent, shows a doctor and nurses performing surgery on a wounded soldier. Closeup, as a nurse wipes sweat from the surgeon's brow. Scene shifts to medical personnel transferring patients on litters from a field ambulance to an Air Evacuation C-47 transport plane. View of the C-47 plane taking off. Nurses inside the plane tending patients, some on stacked cots and others on the floor of the plane.View through the C-47 cockpit window of water and a mass of land ahead.
Scenes from the Japanese South Seas Force invasion of coastal New Guinea in March 1942, during World War 2. Stern of a ship. Smoke rising from a ship in the far background. Japanese warships underway at sea, mountains in the background. A Japanese man on deck of warship, paints picture of historic naval victory. Animated map showing Northern Australia and New Guinea, with animated bombs falling on Port Moresby and flags showing Japanese-held positions at Lae and Salamaua on the coast of the Solomon Sea, to the North. A view of the coastline on the Solomon Sea. Japanese troops are seen in a column making their way through the jungles.They stand with the rising sun battle flag and proceed further, pulling field pieces and carrying other war materiel. View from inside a dwelling, as the Japanese troops enter town of Lae. Destroyed hangars and aircraft at the Lae airfield, which the Japanese bombed on January 21, 1942. The Japanese rising sun flag flying on a tall flag pole. Japanese ships in harbor.
Transport of supplies and personnel to Tsili Tsili for Salamua invasion in New Guinea during World War II. Two C-47s taxi and take off. Nose of a plane "The Golden Arrow" in the foreground. A C-47 is in flight. Men of U.S. 6th Fighter Squadron 5th Air Force disembark from a plane at Tsili Tsili. Native labors assist in unloading the supplies. The troops unload the C-47 "The Zephyr". Smoke in the background. The troops at an airfield. Planes in formation. Planes at the airfield and troops in the foreground. Smoke rises in the distance. The planes on the airstrip.
The U.S. Army Air Force Troop Carrier Command in Wau, Papua New Guinea during World War II. U.S. Army Air Force Troop Carrier Command personnel look through an equipment and make weather forecast. An observer plots on a sheet. Enemy airplanes in groups of three in a formation flight. The airplanes drop bombs over Wau. U.S. Army Air Force ( USAAF ) P-39 Airacobras in flight. Transport airplanes peel off and land at Wau.
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