South West Pacific
The film is made up of a series of different people talking about how they have contributed to the war efforts. These include a motor mechanic who is now makes aircraft and is a member of the Volunteer Defence Force; an engineer from a cosmetic factory, who now manages a factory which contributes through taxes to the war effort; a farmer who see the importance of growing food for the war effort and the contribution of women are making as members of the land army; a former milkman who now builds roads and aerodromes and his daughter Gwennie who works in a munitions factory; Gwennie's boyfriend Bill who is serving in the merchant navy; a RAAF and a RAF pilots in New Guinea before their mission; a RAAF and RAF mechanics worry about the safety of the pilots; also talk to an American mechanic 'Brooklyn' remembering the bombing of Darwin; an Australian and American soldiers are cut off in the steamy jungles of New Guinea - with the Australian remembering the tours of service in Tobruk, Crete, Greece and the Malayan campaigns; he praises his English, Indian and New Zealand allies; with the Australian talking about his brother who is a prisoner of war in Malaya, with the American's brother a prisoner of war in Bataan; and finally the narrator talking about Peter Lalor of the Eureka Rebellion and the pledge made at the Eureka Stockade.
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