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).
A soldier and a woman on a hill in Germany. Dr. Bachler plays an organ for Geman soldiers. German soldiers and their families listen to the performance. Wounded soldiers among the crowd. Children watch the performance. A view of the town. A farmer and his child in a field. Blossom flowers on a tree. (World War II period).
German men and women work in the fields. Men pull a plow. A woman operates a plowing machine. Two women push a cart. A woman loads the cart. View of the town.
Young boys perform for school children in an arena in Berlin. The boys perform gymnastics on a single bar. Other boys sit and stand around waiting for their turn. Two instructors help the boys. The boys perform a routine with boxing gloves on. They perform standing in lines and then in a huddle. School children in the audience laugh and clap.
A lion and a tiger roar during a circus performance in Berlin. Two bears drink milk from bottles. A lion walks on a tightrope (two tight ropes parallel). An instructor with a whip. German soldiers watch the performance. A woman performs acrobatic stunts with the help of three men. The crowd applauds. (World War II period).
German soldiers of the Feldhernhalle Division scramble onto a German submarine in a harbor. Soldiers shake hands with an officer aboard the submarine. A man pours tea into a cup for a soldier. The officer talks to the soldiers standing around him. A flag with the German Nazi Swastika on the submarine. (World War II period).
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