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Evangelist Billy Graham arrives for 11-day crusade
In the first half of 1959 Billy Graham and his associate evangelists Leighton Ford, Grady Wilson and Joseph Blinco held crusades in New Zealand and Australia which attracted large audiences.
'Come and fight the Yanks'
Newspaper article describing two ugly incidents in Wellington in which New Zealand civilians tried to start fights with American servicemen
United States servicemen at Hotel Cecil
United States servicemen at a milkbar run by the Red Cross in the Hotel Cecil, corner of Lambton Quay and Molesworth St, Wellington, between 1942 and 1944.
New Zealand’s day with LBJ
President Lyndon Johnson's 24-hour visit was aimed at shoring up support for the war in Vietnam. Protesters were outnumbered by enthusiastic crowds.
James De Pontius - Maungatapu murders
James de Pontius, the American miner killed at Maungatapu on 13 June 1866
USS Buchanan anti-nuclear cartoon
'Can't understand all this fuss they're making over radiation!' On 4 February 1985 the Labour government refused the USS Buchanan entry to New Zealand ports on the grounds that the United States would neither confirm nor deny that the ship had nuclear capability.
US troops listening to Artie Shaw
American soldiers struggle to catch the sounds of Artie Shaw and his jazz band during their flying visit to New Zealand in September 1943
Lady Newall speaking
Hear Governor-General Sir Cyril Newall's (1941–6) second wife speaking.
Sound: war brides in Second World War
Roy Murphy talks to New Zealanders who married American servicemen, at a reunion in New York
Sound: meeting and marrying a US serviceman
Roy Murphy interviews New Zealanders who married American servicemen at a reunion in New York, circa 1987. Listen to a war bride talk about meeting her US serviceman husband at a wartime dance in Auckland.
US Marines arriving at Wellington, 1942
The smiling faces of US marines soon after their arrival in Wellington on 14 June 1942
Sound: Marines and military police in New Zealand
Hear Ena Ryan talk about US military police and prostitutes in Wellington during the Second World War
Camp Hale, Auckland War Memorial Museum
Camp Hale, part of which was sited on the lawn in front of the Auckland War Memorial Museum
Americans and New Zealanders meet on street
Americans met New Zealanders informally in many public places - here servicemen from both countries listen to a concert
American soldiers visiting Orākei Kōrako
Two American privates partner two women from the New Zealand army on an Easter trip to Ōrākei Kōrako
Eleanor Roosevelt visits New Zealand
Between 28 August and 3 September 1943 New Zealand played host to Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States. She came to visit the American forces, inspect the work of the American Red Cross, and study the contribution of New Zealand women to the war effort
Eleanor Roosevelt's visit, 1943
Government House often hosts distinguished visitors. Here Sir Cyril (1940–46) and Lady Newall and senior staff entertain America's First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, in 1943
War brides leaving for the US
Before departing for the United States, some of the war brides posed with an American soldier in Albert Park, Auckland
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