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WEEKLY REVIEW 138
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Wartime traffic...WOMEN TRUCK DRIVERS (title missing off print): While the men are at war, women load mail bags onto trucks and empty mail boxes. “Women doing a man sized job... Women drivers were once a backseat joke, but these women know their job.”
Also shows a woman emptying pennies from phone boxes and drinking tea with others. “They work like men, but they’re women still when it comes to knocking back a cup of chatter-water”.
PACIFIC INVASION...WHAT IT TAKES: The 1st division prepare for the invasion of Nissan Island in an effort to crush Japan out of existence in the Pacific. They load supplies , tanks, trucks and weapons onto ships. Large air balloons are attached to the cargo.
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Year 1944
Reference number F673
Collection Film and Video Collection
Media type Moving Image
Series WEEKLY REVIEW
Place of Production NEW ZEALAND/AOTEAROA
Genre
Newsreel
Duration 0:06:21
Production company NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL FILM UNIT
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