National Film Unit Wartime Archives

[Tony]

From Archives New Zealand


Weekly Review # 116... featuring Kiwis in action at Guadalcanal.
www.ziln.co.nz/video/1804


Weekly Review #120... RNZAF ground crew in the Pacific.
www.ziln.co.nz/video/1864


"Weekly Review # 172... featuring new Sunderland flying boats for the RNZAF.
www.ziln.co.nz/video/2388


Weekly Review # 175... featuring 'Dumbo Jobs' The RNZAF Rescue Service.
www.ziln.co.nz/video/2509

Weekly Review # 184... The pride of the Bristish Pacific fleet visits Auckland - includes a beat-up by RNZAF Corsairs.
www.ziln.co.nz/video/2675

Weekly Review # 223... featuring a British aircraft carrier visits Wellington.
www.ziln.co.nz/video/2864


Weekly Review # 330... Sydney in eight hours, the flying boat service as it was in the forties when it operated 8 trans-Tasman flights a week from Auckland
www.ziln.co.nz/video/3234

[Dave Homewood]

Absolutely brilliant films!

[Dave Homewood]

Which station was that Oxford fuselage, used for dinghy drill, on in the Dumbo film? I don't think it is Hobsonville, is it?

[Dave Homewood]

The footage of the Corsairs from Ardmore attacking HMS Howe and her escorts is absolutely brilliant. Talk about low, hard and fast! It reminded me of the more modern footage out there of RNZAF Skyhawks attacking ships.

[Dave Homewood]

It is interesting to see the HMS Indefatigable docking with its aircraft still aboard, this was not usual practice, they normally flew off to a land base before he ship docked.

I cannot get the first Sunderland link to open by the way.

[Luther Moore]

They were so cool! I love the NZ troop one,the Sydney one and the Ship one.
One of those men marching from the Achilles was My Dads Uncle who passed away a few weeks ago.

[longforgan]

heres a couple more:

www.ziln.co.nz/video/1084

www.ziln.co.nz/video/1088

www.ziln.co.nz/video/3234

[Tony]

May 10, 2012 22:46:22 GMT 12 Dave Homewood said:

I cannot get the first Sunderland link to open by the way.

Repaired - hopefully
here it is again - just in case
www.ziln.co.nz/video/2388

[Peter Lewis]

Thanks.

Rather cunningly, no mention in the coverage of the Sunderlands being transports rather than armed reconnaissance.