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Kōrero: Women’s networks and clubs

Eagles Club, 1944

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This 1944 newsreel describes the Eagles Club, a wartime organisation for Wellington women engaged or married to United States servicemen. Such women sometimes encountered hostility from fellow New Zealanders, so the club provided them with much-needed support as well as social opportunities.

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Reference: Weekly Review 166. National Film Unit, 1944

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Nancy Swarbrick, Women’s networks and clubs – Identity-based organisations, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/31022/eagles-club-1944 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 24 February 2012.