Australian Women’s Army Corps – New Guinea Battlefront Newsreel 1942. 2:00. A licence fee of 4 x 30 seconds is charged to purchase a licence for the complete film.
Australian Women's Army Corps (WACs) marching through streets of Sydney. Newsreel on New Guinea Battlefront. from Historiathek – zb Media on Vimeo.
Historical context
The footage shows women of the Australian Women’s Army Corps and the New Guinea Battlefront in 1942. 2:00 length.
Nurses from the US Army and the Australian Women’s Army Corps (WAC) march through the streets of Sydney in 1942.
With the Americans on the front in New Guinea. News of the day. Scenes of the advance of US troops from Kokoda through the jungles of New Guinea to the Japanese bases at Buna and Gona, shelling of Japanese positions by US light guns and bombing of a US supply vehicle by Japanese aircraft from Rabaul, which blows up. Also shown are New Guinea natives bringing in US wounded, a US cruiser sinking two Japanese destroyers, and Japanese prisoners on the deck of the cruiser.
190512-3
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