War films

[Little Jo]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

Many of them ( Kokoda units like 39th battallion ), were made up from teenage soldiers , almost press ganged into the army and sent North without any seroius training. They faced crack experienced Japanese troops.

John

You are correct and we should be proud of the lads of the 39th a CMF (Citizens Military Force) Militia Battalion known as Chocos or Weekend Warriors, the CMF were basically only to be used in Australia but sent to protect Australia from the Japanese push in New Guinea until arrival of the AIF's 2/14th and 2/16th from the Middle East, Prime Minister Curtin defied Churchill and withdrew the troops from the middle east to protect Australia from invasion. We owe a lot to these untried CMF Weekend Warriors who showed what kind of stuff we were made of. The rest is history. But we remember the 625 Killed and 1600 wounded. LEST WE FORGET.

Tony

[Marc Montgomery]

There are clips of ennemi intime on youtube.
at that time and later in Lost Command, they were still using mostly WWII equipment...the jeeps were probabaly a mix of Willys, and Hotchkiss.. I remember seeing a number of Hotckiss jeeps when I was in Germany..in the 80s t he French army was releasing them and people were buying them up.. I remember a garage would buy them and stick in mercedes diesel engines.... Hotchkiss looked to all extents and purposes just like the Willys as they used the Willys moulds for body stampings

[Little Jo]

Marc

Interesting information, just goes to show we keep learning more and more as we move deeper into our hobby. Here in Australia they are currently showing an advertisement on TV for the new 2011 Jeep Cherokee and the ad starts showing the 1941 - 42 Jeep going over the test track, this old footage in Black and White has been seen on MLU in the past, shows the Jeep flying through the air over the bumpy ground. Good ad actually.

Cheers

Tony