World War, 1939-1945 - Military personnel, American

Date: 1943

From: Hall, James Oliver, 1916-2006 :[Caricatures and cartoons from the 2nd World War] 1943

Reference: B-099-008

Description: Caricatures of soldiers from ten different countries. Captions read - You can tell the F.F. Legionaire by his expression - the Aussie by his grin - the Greek by his eyebrows - the Pole by his blonde hair - the Indian by his moustache - the Tommy by his monocle - the Sudanese by his complexion - the Yankee by his tie - the South African by his bush-jacket - so I guess it's the kind of cigarette I smoke which gives ME away! (New Zealand soldier in a `lemon-squeezer' hat) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 225 x 380 mm

Date: 1943

From: Hall, James Oliver, 1916-2006 :[Caricatures and cartoons from the 2nd World War] 1943

Reference: B-099-010

Description: Shows ten women from various countries who served in the forces during World War II. Depicts various hairstyles and headgear. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 230 x 380 mm

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-4161-01-263

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

Date: ca1945-ca1955

By: Pinnell, Karen, active 2002

Reference: PA1-f-240

Description: Album of scenic photographs taken on motoring tours through the North Island during the 1940s and 1950s. It includes a series of images showing United States Servicemen touring in New Zealand, probably during World War 2. Places visited include the Chateau Tongariro, Ohinemutu, Rotorua and Huka Lodge. Mount Ruapehu is shown in eruption. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: From the collection of the Draper and Brenton families.

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: [ca 1940-1944]

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

By: Harrington-Hutchings, Leonard William, 1913-2002

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-086

Description: Five photographs have captions: Subjects include Italian child collecting food from soldiers; group of soldiers in desert at Burg el Arab - W R Sutherland, P Bouzaid, K Brown, A Ross, A W Heason, J Bidwill, S Chapman; group of men at Sanzio [?] - Cpl W McClelland, W R Small, T G Brown (wireless operators [?]; 30 Btn arriving from NZ, 14 Nov 1940, Namaka; Jim Broadmore & Fuller (phone operator), 26 Sep 1943, Burg el Arab Unidentified photographs include: Shipboard scenes (including boxing match); Afro-American soldiers lining up for food and on sentry duty in Middle East; construction work on Suez Canal or Nile River; etc Quantity: 22 b&w original photographic print(s).

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: 1939-1948

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-4161-01-249

Description: Amongst United Nations photographs are the following NZ-related items: C A Berendsen, New Zealand's Minister to the United States, and New Zealand member of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Council, addressing the fourth session of the Council at Hotel Traymore, Atlantic City, New Jersey; J V Wilson of the NZ Department of External Affairs and member of the NZ delegation to the Second Session of the UN General Assembly recording a talk for rebroadcast by NZ Broadcasting Service, Oct 1947; James Thorn, NZ High Commissioner to Canada at General Assembly's Second Committee (Economic and Financial), Sep 1947; T O W Brebner, alternate representative of NZ to the General Assembly's Sixth Committee (Legal), Sep 1947. 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: [1942-1945]

Reference: PA-Group-00087

Description: Photographs of United State Marines in the Pacific during World War II, taken between 1942 and 1945 by an unidentified photographer. Includes views of an outdoor religious ceremony, perhaps a group burial, and troops on board a ship. Box lid labled `WWII' and `Marines.' Source of title - Title supplied by Library Accompanying material - Original Kodak negative plate box Quantity: 18 b&w original negative(s) (some appear to be copy negatives). Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2007

Date: 1919-[ca1945]

From: Pharazyn family: Photographs from the papers of Noel Pharazyn and his sister Eleanor

Reference: PAColl-10031-2

Description: Includes:- Portraits of Noel Pharazyn in military dress and Lydia Field about the time of their marriage in November 1919. Photographs relating to Noel Pharazyn's time as the New Zealand military attache In the United States from 1941 to 1945. These include - Portrait proofs of Noel Pharazyn taken in Washington DC. A group of photographs of Noel Pharazyn in the company of his wife Lydia, Prime Minister Peter Fraser, and Ambassador Carl Berendsen, meeting with the US Under Secretary of War, Kenneth Royal, to recieve a medal. Photographs of military groups taken in the United States. Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1942

By: Hansen, Albert, 1876-1957

Reference: A-252-002

Description: Shows two soldiers changing guard and a general view of the landscape around Plimmerton. The soldiers may be part of the Home Guard or they may be American troops who were based at nearby Paraparaumu Inscriptions: A Hansen Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 200 x 278 mm

Date: 1943-1945, 1955

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-4161-01-106

Description: Most photographs are captioned. Includes views of US marines following a trail on Guadalcanal with a local guide leading the way; US Admiral William F Halsey talking with US Vice Admiral Aubrey W Fitch during an inspection tour of Green Island (Nissan Island), Allied base in the Southwest Pacific recently seized from the Japanese. US Rear Admiral Robert B Carney (Chief of Staff to Admiral Halsey) is sitting in the back, 1944; locals planting rice watched by soldiers; Emperor Hirohito waving to children as he leaves Freyberg Block with NZ soldier in foreground (J Force); US navy task force entering lagoon of Green Island (Nissan Island), 1944; three unidentified soldiers; group pf unidentified soldiers eating at an outdoor mess; Norfolk Island; swimming sports at A.T.D. at the site of the 144 Ind Bty, 1943; sappers in the Kaimai Ranges, Mar 1955; face of a petrol pit; 8 NZ Infantry Brigade installing barbed wire defences at a beach. Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s) (mounted).

Date: 19 Jun 2001

From: Tawa women oral history project

By: Gundesen, Robyn Carol, 1938-

Reference: OHInt-0596/05

Description: Robyn Carol Gundesen (nee A'Court) born Wellington, 1938. Recalls American servicemen driving jeeps through Tawa during war years. Other recollections include: being taken to watch rugby on back of Mexted's truck; fire brigade being formed after a house fire in Tawa; water and septic tanks for sewage; steam trains to Wellington and electrification of line; blackberrying as a source for jams; old swing bridge; flower shows in Tawa Hall; Flat Street Primary School (now Tawa school) and Wellington Girls' College; social activities and parents involvement with church. Describes own wedding. Mentions Sister Ballance, a plunket nurse, who made house visits. Recalls Tawa being a growing community and discusses major changes over the years and mentions large shopping area. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Barbara Adams Venue - Huia St, Tawa Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009355-009356 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.06 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3024.

Date: 28 Jun 2001

From: Tawa women oral history project

By: Clare, Mavis Winifred, 1923-

Reference: OHInt-0596/03

Description: Mavis Winifred Clare (nee Topham) born Takapau, Hawkes Bay 1923 where she lived for 2 years before moving to Auckland and to Tawa in 1927. Describes first house in Tawa; pets and animals; preserving eggs; making own soap and domestic facilities. Recalls father working as traveller for John Raine Ltd, a china importing firm owned by mother's family. Talks about Tawa stream which used to flood. Describes involvement with Methodist Church Tawa and refers to Sunday School and picnics etc. Lists shops in Tawa. Recalls the war years and refers to the Americans and social life with special Tawa farewells and welcome homes for soldiers. Mentions balls at Majestic Theatre. Refers to the Mexted family who owned a lot of land in Tawa. Describes Tawa's progress after the war. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Barbara Adams Venue - Duncan St, Tawa Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009352 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3022. 1 coloured photograph of Mavis Clare, 28.6.01 and photocopies of 4 b&w photographs: (1) Ken and Mavis Topham at back Alison and Howard Topham at front; (ii) Howard Topham (with lamb) on Main Road, Tawa Property; (iii) From left: Mavis, Shirley and Alison Topham.

Date: 22 May 2001

From: Tawa women oral history project

By: Turner, Enid Kathleen, 1936-

Reference: OHInt-0596/12

Description: Enid Kathleen Turner (nee Cunningham) born Hastings 1936. Describes family villa at Napier Road, Havelock North, mentioning toilet arrangements, heating, cooking on coal range and model T Ford car. Recalls primary and secondary school in Hastings; learning evacuation procedures at primary school; involvement in school sports; musicals and school plays; war years - Americans visiting area and giving children chewing gum and candies. Gives reasons for moving to Wellington at the age of 18 years. Talks about meeting husband, Cliff Turner at a dance at Rainbow Hall, Hataitai, courting period and buying land at McLelan Street [Linden]. Refers to Dennis Whooley, builder. Describes home appliances and refers to Tawa telephone system, with reference to party line. Mentions building of Tawa College and early flooding due to blocked drains. Personalities in Tawa mentioned include: Brian Mexted (local carrier), Bruce Drummond (chemist), Dr Brian Webb (family doctor) and Dr Jim Kelly, Elsa Dunlop; Mr Flaws (headmaster, Tawa College); Mrs Bonallack's (craft shop) and Mrs Sutton (supervisor with mother helpers and transport to Play Centre). Describes own children's activities at Tawa. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Barbara Adams Venue - Beauchamp Street, Linden Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009369-009370 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3031.

Date: 1942-1946

By: Everard, Dorothy Cara, 1922-2010

Reference: PAColl-8029

Description: Photographs of Commander Irwin F Beyerly of the US Navy (1942-1945), Malcolm Cawthra, who became Everard's fiance, of the British Navy (1945-1946), and a portrait of Dorothy Everard in uniform. Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 photocopy/ies of a magazine clipping. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-7979.

Date: 6 Feb 1945

By: Kent, Eileen, active 1945-2002

Reference: MS-Papers-7396

Description: Photocopy of letter from John J Falbe III to Kent writing of his hope to spend leave with her shortly Source of title - Supplied John J Falbe III was serving in the US Army during World War II and Kent was with the American Red Cross, Cambridge, England Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 1945

From: Gray, George Duncan Dunbar, b 1906 :A wartime log 1944-1945

Reference: E-275-083

Description: Shows three men hunched in the cold, talking together in a group, the central one with his back to the viewer. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Initials DG Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Coloured pencil drawing on page of notebook, 171 x 122 mm

Date: [ca 2 Mar 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

By: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-05366-F

Description: American and New Zealand spectators watch an incident on the sidelines during the exhibition match played in the Cassino area, in Italy, between two teams from the New Zealand Division Ammo. Photograph taken circa 2 March 1944 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative