U.S. Army Air Forces operations in New Guinea Island during World War 2. Animated map highlights New Guinea and shows limit of Japanese defenses. U.S. troops board U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 Skytrain transport plane. Formation of C-47s in sky. C-47 lands. Troops getting off the C-47 and running for cover. Australian troops getting equipment moving armament. Wounded soldier being placed aboard C-47. U.S. Army Air Forces C-56 Loadstar buzzing airfield. American troops making a runway. U.S. Army Air Forces P-38 Lightening fighter aircraft takes off. Shutter of a B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft. Bombs exploding on Japanese targets. B-25s bomb Japanese ships. B-25s strafing Japanese planes on ground. Parafrog bombs being dropped by B-25s. Shells exploding. U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bombers in flight. View at Wewak Island. B-17 Flying Fortress bombers and P-38s in flight.
'Letter from Buna'. A U.S. Army soldier writes a letter during World War II, while seated under a tarp in rain in a jungle area. U.S. Army and Army troops from Australia on the Buna campaign in New Guinea. Troops assemble at Port Moresby, New Guinea. A corduroy road is constructed in jungles. Supplies dropped from the air. Dense forests in the background. Firing on Japanese from beach positions during Battle of Buna-Gona. Dead bodies of Japanese soldiers on beach and in trench positions that were overrun by allies. Thin and emaciated Japanese POWs (Prisoners Of War) sit on the ground. Native people carry injured men on stretchers to native huts. U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur seen speaking with Australian General Thomas Blamey.
American and Australian infantry moving along a dirt path in New Guinea, during World War 2. They pass damaged Japanese tanks and are seen sitting on one posing for the camera. Coming ashore from a small boat, the troops pass a beached Japanese landing boat full of shell holes. A group of Australians, in a landing boat, display a captured Japanese flag. Allied troops moving along wet jungle paths and crossing a wooden bridge. Australian soldiers pull U.S. howitzers through the jungle mud by means of ropes. A lookout in a rugged watch tower observes a C-47 cargo plane as it airdrops supplies. View of Allied soldiers sitting around a fire enjoying their dinner.
War between the Allied Forces and the Axis troops in the South Pacific during World War II. New Guinea Papuan natives carry arms, ammunition and supplies for the Allies in a boat. An overnight camp of the Papuan people. The natives carry the supplies across mountains and makeshift bridges. The Australians inspect a Japanese submarine in Sydney Harbor, Australia. They remove the firing mechanism of the torpedo and the instrument which helps a torpedo to find its way once fired from a submarine. U.S. and Australian naval forces move towards a Japanese held island and bombard it. The sailors load and fire artillery. Smoke rises in distance as the shells hit the targets. U.S. Marines survey the damage. Dead Japanese soldiers. A lone U.S. Marine with captured Japanese prisoners.
Unloading of gasoline drums from a U.S. supply ship at Horiko Beach, New Guinea during World War II. Natives unload drums from the supply ship into water. They push the floating drums towards the shore, roll them on the beach and load them onto trucks. American soldiers stand around.
Construction of a road from Oro Bay to Dobodura, New Guinea under supervision of engineer battalion of the U.S. Army during World War II. Natives dig a drainage ditch at a side of a road under the supervision of U.S. 116th Engineer Battalion, 41st Division soldiers. Various views of natives working in mud. The soldiers drill holes with pneumatic drills. A bulldozer levels the road.
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