United States. Marine Corps

Date: 30 Jan 1944

By: Lucas, Jim, active 1944

Reference: MS-Papers-9964

Description: Comprises transcript of letter written by Lucas to A M replying to one from him (Maurice), in which he describes the US Marine Corps landing at Tarawa, the deaths of many of his friends and others. He refers frequently to having been in Wellington and to being a journalist. Source of title - Supplied Lucas had been in New Zealand, probably in 1943 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1938-1943

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: United States. Marine Corps. 2nd Division

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-057

Description: Aerial and other photographs of the following: Dunedin fortress area showing Wharf Street Hy.A.A., camp, Kensington Drill Hall, 1938, 1942 (Series 4/5); Blumine Island showing gun emplacements, Top Camp site and Lower Camp site (Series 2/5); Timaru showing general area, battery position, Drill Hall, Band Room (Timaru Municipal Band Inc), Patiti Point magazine (Series 20/4); Bluff coastal defence showing gun position disguised as cottage, Drill Hall (Series 2/4); Burnham Military Camp showing general area, magazines, school buildings, recreation field, NCO's quarters, etc, 1939-1942 (Series 2/7 & 8/9); Christchurch showing general view of battery position, District Headquarters in Malings Building, aerial view of 44 Riccartion Road (S.D.Constr. Sqr), 1946 (Series 3/4); Coromandel Council Chambers/Coromandel Orderly Room, 1938 (Series 3/5); Dannevirke Drill Hall, 1938, and general view of C.D.S.I Camp, 1943 (Series 4/1); Delta Military Camp showing power house and engine room under construction, 1943 (Series 4/2); Diamond Harbour, Lyttelton showing general area, 1942 (Series 4/3); Dunedin fortress area showing Taiaroa Heads, Harrington Point & Wharf Street A.A. site, 1942 (Series 4/4); Duntroon Drill Hall, 1938 (Series 4/6); Featherston Military Camp and Drill Hall (Series 6/1); Foxton showing general area including Manawatu River, township and racecourse (Series 6/2); Tomahawk, Dundein showing three houses taken by army for accommodation purposes (Healey's, Winefield's and Richard's), gun positions and B.O.P., 1943 (Series 20/7); Te Atatu showing Hy A.A. position, 1942 (Series 20/2); Pilots Beach, Dunedin fortress area showing general area and gun emplacement and camp, 1943 (Series 16/14); Plimmeron showing general views of camp (Series 16/15); Post Office Point, Sounds defence showing magazine construction, camp site, gun emplacement site, general views, etc, 1943 (Series 16/17) Some Dunedin and Bluff photographs taken by Captain A F Tylee. Quantity: 162 b&w original photographic print(s) in one box.

Date: 5 Feb-9 May 1929; 15 Jul-17 Aug 1949

From: Heenan, Joseph William Allan (Sir), 1888-1951 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1132-233

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1925-1945]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-046

Description: Includes: Construction, etc of 4th General Hospital, Dumbea, New Caledonia; unidentified Pacific campaign (US servicemen); NZ Military Forces display at the Dunedin Exhibition, 1925 (Series 30/1); aerial photographs of Whangaroa Harbour showing battery position, etc, 1942 (Series 23/12); aerial photographs of Whangarei Heads, including Bushy Head, 1942 (Series 23/11); Wellington (Series 23/16) including Garrison Hall in Buckle Street 1938, magazines at Kaiwarra, Central Park Camp, Kaiwarra US Camp, Anderson Park US Camp, Gracefield US warehouses; Wanganui (Series 23/7) showing Drill Hall 1938, position of aerodrome & coastal battery; Warkworth (Series 23/8) showing general area, Camp No 6, 30-bed hospital. Includes some photocopied prints Quantity: 174 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: June 1942

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-32247-F

Description: Two newly arrived United States Marine Corps members drinking milk from bottles on the wharf at Wellington, New Zealand. Photographed by Australian Ministry of Information photographer George Silk in June 1942. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 6 x 6 cm Finding Aids: Print in Photograph Archive War Effort Collection at AI235.

Date: 1939-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-270

Description: Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).

Date: 1939-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-271

Description: Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).

Date: 1939-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-273

Description: Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).

Date: 1943-1944

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-116

Description: Most photographs have captions. Include several of dress rehearsal for Pacific landing showing NZ forces training for amphibious operations. Filling bags with clay on Vella Lavella (Sgt F R Palliser-Smith, Driver W Tippins, Driver L Marshall), 1943; NZ soldiers on their bunks aboard a troop transport (Driver L Wilson, Driver D E Klenere, Pte W J Doherty, Pte D Hodgkinson); NZ Brigade arriving at Guadalcanal; US marines unloading supplies at Guadalcanal; US planes bombing Buka airfield, Nov 1943; US Navy medical officer studying blood specimen from a malaria patient on Guadalcanal; NZ troops playing Chinese Checkers while relaxing during an exercise on a transport ship; L/Cpl W Brown, Spr E S Smith filling cans during Treasury Islands campaign. Getting ashore at Mele Beach (New Hebrides); Col M A Edson & Col W J Whaling, commander and executive officer of 5th US Marines; group photo of 8th Bde HQ staff, Treasury Islands (staff named on back); church, outdoor thetare and yachts at Falamai, Mono Island; Lautoka Express (CSR Free train); Fijian family group; line-up of Japanese captives at Guadalcanal; approaching Treasury Islands. Disembarking and unloading at Guadalcanal; loading tanks at Kukum Beach; 14th Bde landing at Guadalcanal; 36th Bn camp at Stirling Island; unloading at Mono Island; crossing Lunga River during manoeuvres; jungle exercise; troops at Guadalcanal before sailing for Vella Lavella; building church at Falamai; gunners pulling a gun ashore at Efate, 1943; 3rd Div training exercises at Mele Beach; men of 36 NZ Bn on USS `President Jackson'; wounded Fijian soldier carried through jungle for medical attention on Bougainville; NZ officers of 1st Battalion of Fiji Infantry examining a Japanese Zero plane shot down on Vila airstrip during attack on Kolombangara Island, Oct 1943. Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall inspecting NZ troops on Treasury Islands; line-up of tanks prior to inspection by G-G; aerial view of Stirling Island. Quantity: 79 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1939-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-267

Description: Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).

Date: 1939-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-250

Description: Series of 52 numbered and captioned photographs relating to US victory on Tarawa (New Guinea) Collection of photographs showing US war economy - production of naval and air craft, ammmunition, etc; US war cartoons published in American newspapers - by Rube Goldberg, Steinberg, Packer, J.C.H., Talburt, Mergen, Burck, and George White. Collection of miscellaneous photographs of US Marine Corps in the Pacific Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).

Date: 1971-1972

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: 84-223-154/11/1/Pt1

Description: File relates to a property at Leeward Drive, Whitby; Second Marine Division Memorial, Pauatahanui (plaque erected by the NZ American Association). Includes diagram of the memorial Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1991 - 1993

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[10 original cartoons. 1982-92].

Reference: C-125-073

Description: A group of US Marines carrying filming equipment. Implies that reporting events in war-torn Somalia is more important to the USA than providing military support Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 424 x 592 mm

Date: [1945]?

From: Everard, Dorothy Cara, 1922-2010: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-12099-2

Description: One letter with an illegible signature and one telegram from Dick Maxwell, stationed with the 3rd Marines, Puhinui. Both sent to Dorothy Everard. Not dated. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 2 items. Physical Description: Letter has United States Marine Corps letterhead

Date: 1939-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-272

Description: Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).

Date: 1943-1944

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-117

Description: Most photographs have captions. Include: Maravari cemetery, Vella Lavella; cemetery at Falamai, Mono Island; NZ cemetery at native village of Bangarangara; NZEP IP Vella Lavella campaign burial service in jungle; Allied Cemetery, Nissan Island (Green Island); Allied Cemetery, Guadalcanal; NZ cemetery near northern end of Vella Lavella; United Nations Cemetery, Treasury Islands; cemetery on Nissan Island showing graves of American marines. Honoring American dead on Guadalcanal - Solomon Islanders and members of allied military forces stand at attention during ceremonies at which a memorial chapel, built by 4,000 islanders to honor the 1,600 American dead buried on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons, was presented to the US people. The chapel is made entirely of thatch and wood with decorative panels on the exterior. Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1939-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-269

Description: Photographs arranged in geographic groupings. See Place Field for locations. Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).

Date: 1992

From: Scott, Thomas 1947?- :The Evening Post; Cartoons, 1 - 24 December 1992

Reference: H-033-008

Description: Shows a group of soldiers erecting a large microphone and television lights. Refers to the arrival of US marines in Somalia and expected television coverage Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide photograph

Date: [ca 1940-1945]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Green & Hahn (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-142

Description: Series of official publicity photographs. Some contain captions. Women's National Service Corps truck driver, Auckland; working in an army library; anti-aircraft training; returned men and women on furlough from 2nd NZEF on parade to a luncheon in their honour at Wellington; All Nations Day parade, Wellington (photo of US Armed Forces); NZ Women's Auxillary Service participating in parade. WAAC writing a letter inside her hut; two WAAF plotters at NZ Headquarters, 1943; series of photographs showing the WAAC Camp Fire Brigade practicising at WAAC Camp, Miramar Includes negative envelopes for negatives at 1/2-176306 to 1/2-176352 Includes two photographs taken by Green & Hahn, photographers, 152 Armagh St, Christchurch Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1939-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-268

Description: Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).