Ngā Taonga Sound Archives – international recognition for WWII sound recordings

Arch Curry of the Mobile Broadcasting Unit records a message home from Pat Newman of Timaru, Cassino, Italy 1944 [courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library]

John Proudfoot and Charles Lewis of the Mobile Unit recording messages of recently repatriated NZ prisoners of war, Egypt 1943. [Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library]

Mobile Unit commentator Arch Curry standing on a jeep at Alamein, viewing a burning New Zealand jeep through binoculars [Alexander Turnbull Library]