Port Moresby Under the Blitz

Australian Newsreel from 1942 telling the story of the defence of Port Moresby New Guinea

[@stevebrickshitta870]

Never seen any of this footage. Fantastic. The footage of the harbour being bombed was 1st class. High quality throughout.

[@arajanal7750]

Thank you

[@deemarty6618]

thank you for the upload kind sir

[@zzodr]

Well a P39 does not exactly rocket into the sky. By the time they get to 20K ft, the bombers would be long gone. Still, better than nothing.

[@theeaselrider4032]

" Fuzzy Wuzzies" ?

[@Hirdsmand]

It was the forties. Shut up.

[@TheAhlulbayt1]

Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels was the name given by Australian soldiers to Papua New Guinean war carriers who, during World War II, were recruited to bring supplies up to the front and carry injured Australian troops down the Kokoda trail during the Kokoda Campaign. "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" was originally used by British soldiers in the 19th centurie, also it relates to the local form of hair shape!

[@clairevero]

Be quiet

[@neddyladdy]

It's a term of endearment !

[@capie44]

As a person who recently studied eat campaigns of New Guinea by the Japanese, this film is clearly propaganda. The Aussies fighting the Japanese from Ghana and Buna all the way down the Cota Trail had to fight with complete short of supplies. They had even found food very difficult to keep supplied by the jungle itself. As discovered in the Philippines during that same month, the P39 Airacobra was no match to any of the modern fighter planes of the 1940s. The a6m zero was a superior fighter aircraft and easily out flew and shot down the P39.

[@neddyladdy]

They sound like modern tourists, eating their way to wherever they want to go.

[@JHamList]

This footage is actually from a later part of the new guinea campaign, during the early parts of the kokoda trail campaign and prior to the battle of the Coral Sea, Port Moresby was primarily defended by largely obsolete Kittyhawk fighters, while the fighters in this clip are p-39 Airocobras which were loaned to Australia by the USA and only used for rear area duties in 1942. The airocobras in this clip bear US markings so it is likely that the footage was taken later in the war, perhaps late 1942 or even early 1943, as by that stage increasing numbers of american reinforcements had begun to arrive in New Guinea.

[@megafauna8374]

@@JHamListThe P-39's are most likely aircraft from the USAAF 26 & 27 pursuit squadrons which relieved RAAF 75 Squadron in Port Moresby in May 1942.

[@mickryan2450]

But we won

[@mickryan2450]

Not a smart aproach great divide would totally screw em