Summary: Easter Action on Bougainville (Solomon Islands).
Description: Opening Titles: "...These grim pictures were taken under fire by an NZNFU Cameraman. We show them to remind you that the troops sweating and dying in the jungle will not easily understand or forgive any slacking on the home front." A patrol returns; American troops (some coloured) in dug-in positions; Major General Griswold, US Commanding Officer, confers with officers; Artillery firing (man using slide rule to compute trajectory); the bodies of Japanese soldiers of the 6th Imperial Division in the riverbed where they were caught by artillery fire; a flag is recovered; a Fijian Vickers machine gun post; Lieutenant-Colonel Upton, CO of the New Zealand battalion on Bougainville; a Sherman tank; Fijian troops playing cards; meal time; a badly wounded Fijian is brought in, given blood plasma, transferred to ambulance. (Unfinished).
Production Details: New Zealand National Film Unit (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Griswold, Oscar (person)
Upton (Lieutenant Colonel) (person)
Republic of Fiji Military Forces (regiment/service)
IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY (regiment/service)
New Zealand Army (regiment/service)
United States Army (regiment/service)
New Zealand National Film Unit (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman (object name)
casualties, Japanese dead - battlefield (object name)
combat, Allied - artillery bombardment (object name)
medical, Fijian military - emergency: blood transfusion (object name)
operations, Allied military - return (object name)
recreation, Fijian military - casual: card playing (object name)
weapons, British military - smallarm: Vickers machine gun & [Fijian] (object name)
Solomon Islands <Bougainville> (geography)
propaganda (concept)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 494 ft; Running time: 5 mins
