NATIONAL FILM UNIT
"VAIL RUN," a film made by the N.Z. National Film Unit about the Dakota run between Auckland and Japan, is showing in Weekly Review No. 310, released throughout the Dominion on August 8. This air run, one of the longest in the world, was organised to carry mail to the J Force troops, and the 17,000 miles trip is made each week. Places of call where the cameraman made pictures include Brisbane, Darwin, Java, Singapore, Saigon, Hong Kong and Okinawa. The vast area covered shows that distance means nothing in this air age, :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 424, 8 August 1947, Page 25
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96NATIONAL FILM UNIT New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 424, 8 August 1947, Page 25
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