United States 5th Air Force transport service in Port Moresby, New Guinea during World War II. Aerial view of ships harbored near Port Moresby. A sign board reads "Air Transport Enquiries Here, Refreight and Passage on Flying Boat". GIs get off a truck ambulance and are weighed on freight scales outside air terminals. U.S. Army soldier on a stretcher is transferred into a small boat at Port Moresby then moved out to a British Short S 23 Empire "C" Class flying boat. Local natives of New Guinea assist in transport efforts. Passengers and baggage loaded into the aircraft. Mountains in the background.
Troop carriers drop supplies for troops at war over a lake in Papua New Guinea during World War II . Various material and supplies being prepared for delivery. Wheel barrow parts dropped from planes. The parts are then reassembled for use. Barbed wire dropped with the supplies. Soldiers organize and pack mails for the troops in sacks. Soldiers wrap Gelignite between two sand bags for minimum damage during drops. Rations packed in neatly stacked cartons. Soldiers prepare and pack ammunition for machine guns and mortars, as well as grenades for delivery. A soldier packs medical supplies into boxes. Two soldiers wrap the packed supplies in cloth. Another soldier attaches a parachute to the medical supplies.
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).
Allied troops at the Kokoda front, New guinea during World War 2. Aerial views of the mountainous country side. U.S. Army air Forces C-53 aircraft in flight. Natives look skywards towards the plane in flight. Aircraft drop supplies as a parachute descends. Australian soldiers on a field.
Australian troops at the Kokoda front, New guinea during World War II. Australian soldiers fry food in open and eat. A soldier cleans his rifle. A cameraman sets camera on a tree as a native looks on. An Australian soldier walks through a jungle as he carries a rifle. A damaged native hut after an explosion. A shell explodes.
Australian troops at the Kokoda front, New guinea during World War 2. Australian troops with rifles advance. Native men and women. Natives carry wounded soldiers on litters through mud and rain. Wounded being provided first aid. An injured soldiers smokes a cigarette. A soldier with a broken hand in a sling. A soldier shows his helmet. Soldiers run around in a village.
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