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The film consists of a series of different people talking about how they have contributed to the war effort. These include a motor mechanic who now builds airplanes and is a member of the Volunteer Defense Force; an engineer from a cosmetics factory, who now runs a factory that contributes through taxes to the war effort; a farmer who saw the importance of growing food for the war effort and the contribution of women as members of the ground army; a former milkman who now builds roads and airports and his daughter Gwennie who works in an munitions factory; Gwennie's boyfriend, Bill, who served in the merchant navy; RAAF and RAF pilots in New Guinea prior to their mission; RAAF and RAF mechanics are concerned about pilot safety; also spoke to an American mechanic "Brooklyn" remembering the Darwin bombing; an Australian and American soldier cut off in the steamy jungles of New Guinea - with Australia recalling a service tour of Tobruk, Crete, Greece and the Malayan campaign; he praised British allies India and New Zealand; with the Australian talking about his brother being a prisoner of war in Malaya, with the American brother a prisoner of war in Bataan; and finally the narrator talks about Peter Lalor of the Eureka Rebellion and the promises made in the Eureka Stockade.