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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, ...
This film is considered a Second World War wartime propaganda film of Australia.
One of two World War II Australian propaganda shorts starring Australian actor Chips Rafferty.
| Credited cast: | |||
| Bert Bailey | - | The Farmer (Old Man Stewart) | |
| Peter Finch | - | R.A.A.F. Pilot | |
| John Nugent Hayward | - | The Factory Manager (as John Nugent-Hayward) | |
| Alec Kellaway | - | The Mechanic | |
| Walter Pym | - | The Sailor | |
| Chips Rafferty | - | R.A.A.F. Mechanic | |
| George Randall | - | The Merchant Seaman | |
| Ron Randell | - | U.S. Soldier (as Ron Randall) | |
| Ralph Smart | - | R.A.F. Pilot | |
| Muriel Steinbeck | - | The Munitions Worker (Gwennie) | |
| Grant Taylor | - | A.I.F. Soldier | |
| Joe Valli | - | R.A.F. Mechanic |
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