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New Zealand Mobile Broadcasting Unit announcer Vivian Spencer introduces a talk by Lt-Col. W.A.Bryden of Wellington, on commanding a field regiment.
He says the 38 Field Regiment had only been together a very short time before going into action, but performed well. He describes fighting at night, and hearing sounds form the jungle.
Radical changes were involved in the landing [on the Treasury Islands.] They were landed from small landing craft on rocky shores. It was hard to get the guns ashore, but they were in action that afternoon
The signallers were busy laying cables. They established and maintained
communications despite countless breaks due to falling trees and the
enemy who cut any wire they see. There was the closest co-operation
between all the units, including the Americans and they owe much to the American boat crews who landed them under fire.
He ends by sending Christmas greetings on behalf of his men.