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Black and white stills of US Marines in New Zealand, 1942-43.
The photography is by US Marines attached to specialist film units, who were stationed in New Zealand at this time. Stills in this set capture A K transport and band; Army clerks book Marines into hospital; Corpsman attending to a patient; Corpsman’s ‘Victory garden’; Darkroom doubles as foxhole; Dentist at work; Flag-raising with band as new Marine camp opens; Funerals of men killed on manoeuvres, incl. June 16; General arrives to inspect troops; General Vandegrift and others; Generals arrive to inspect troops; Hospital with a million dollar view; Improvised road of burlap and wire over sand; Issuing warning about malaria; Mail room operations, including photographic V-mail system (note hut design); Maj Gen Barrett; Maj Gen Barrett arrives to review troops; Maj Gen Rupertus; Malaria control; Manoeuvres; Marine on fishing trip; Marine pointing out terrain; Marine points to his home town on map; Marines at attention by huts during inspection; Marines at Baptist Church service; Obstacle course; Officers discuss simulated attack; Parasitology laboratory; Photographic unit with equipment; Portable refrigerator used as a darkroom; Queen Street Parade in aid of Liberty Loan Drive; Recreation hall: cards, tea and cake, chess. Red Cross hut used as church on Sunday; Rifle company in training and going on hike; Rugby game, US v NZ Army; Scout training school; Seabee carpenter’s mate; Two brothers in the construction unit; Water purifying plant.