The Home Front
In total, around 140,000 New Zealand personnel served overseas for the Allied war effort, and an additional 100,000 men were armed for Home Guard duty. At its peak in July 1942, New Zealand had 154,549 men and women under arms (excluding the Home Guard) and by the war's end a total of 194,000 men and 10,000 women had served in the armed forces at home and overseas. A total of 11,928 New Zealanders, or 0.73% of the 1939 population, lost their lives.
New Zealand's home front during WWII in popular culture
- http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-years-back-making-do-1973
- http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/dead-letters-2006
Access to imports was hampered and rationing made doing some things very difficult. Fuel and rubber shortages are overcome with novel approaches. In NZ industry switched from civilian needs to making war materials on a much larger scale than is commonly understood today.
Read more about this topic: Military History Of New Zealand During World War II
Famous quotes containing the words home and/or front:
“My dear dear Mother,
If you don’t let me come home I die—I am all over ink,
and my fine clothes have been spoilt—I have been tost in a blanket, and seen a ghost.
I remain, my dear dear Mother,
Your dutiful and most unhappy son,
Freddy.
P.S. Remember me to my Father.”
—Frederick Reynolds (18th century)
“Carry hate
In front of you and harmony behind.
Be deaf to music and to beauty blind.
Win war. Rise bloody, maybe not too late
For having first to civilize a space
Wherein to play your violin with grace.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)