Yanks in New Zealand - WWII (1 Viewer)

[BLReed]

American Guide to New Zealand. WWII
"Meet New Zealand, a guide produced by the Historical Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs in September
1942 for United States servicemen stationed in New Zealand during the Second World War." Click bottom right corner
to turn page.

http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/files/documents/meet-nz-flipbook/index.html

A series of five clips -------- Over There.
1992 Documentary. "Auckland was half the size of Brooklyn Cemetery and twice as dead."

http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/over-here-1992"

 

[Desertkiwi]

Thanks for posting this, some great home-front info which gives a real in-sight into life in NZ for US military personal during WW2.

I know of a few that married Kiwi girls and ended up residing here and know of a big US camp north of Auckland on a friends farm I used to regularly visit as a young lad. You would never know the area had been a camp for the Marines, it's all grass and trees now.

The street I was brought up in had a big strip of concrete down it that formed most of the road. I learned many years ago that the concrete had been laid by US engineers as an experiment for the NZ government to work out the logistics of building concrete roads instead of using tarseal. Tarseal won due to cost, however the concrete road is still there over 70 years later.

Cheers.