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Book The Battle for Wau

    Book Details:
  • Author : Phillip Bradley
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2008-04-15
  • ISBN : 0521896819
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Battle for Wau written by Phillip Bradley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bradley describes the early WWII conflicts in New Guinea, from the Japanese landing at Salamaua in 1942 to the defeat at Wau in 1943. Drawing on recollections from over seventy veterans and first-hand knowledge of the region, all aspects are brought together in one readable volume.

Book Salamaua 1943

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  • Author : Phillip Bradley
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2021-05-05
  • ISBN : 1922387762
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Salamaua 1943 written by Phillip Bradley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the end of the Kokoda campaign in January 1943 and the start of the New Guinea offensives at Lae in early September 1943, the Australian Army was engaged in some of the most intense and challenging fighting of the war for the ridges around Salamaua. Following the defeat of the Japanese offensive against Wau, it was decided to carry the fight to the Japanese force at Salamaua but what started as platoon level actions in April and May 1943 soon developed into company, battalion and brigade level operations for control of the dominating ridge systems around Salamaua. Following an amphibious landing, an American infantry regiment and supporting artillery units were also drawn into the fighting in July 1943. Salamaua 1943 also includes detailed insights into the tenacious Japanese defence of Salamaua, a defence to a threat that in the end was only a feint to draw Japanese forces away from Lae. Incorporating over 120 photographs from the battlefield including drone footage plus 26 maps and the added detail of 15 sidebars, Salamaua 1943 takes the reader behind what was one of the most complex campaigns of the Pacific War.

Book The Battle of Wau

Download or read book The Battle of Wau written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wau

    Wau

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  • Author : Phillip Bradley
  • Publisher : Australian Army Campaigns Series
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9780980777406
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Wau written by Phillip Bradley and published by Australian Army Campaigns Series. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout most of 1942, the Australian army fought a series of commando actions to keep the Japanese at bay in the Wau - Salamaua area of New guinea. Australian commando operations against salamaua in June 1942 is still considered to be the 'perfect raid'. Following other commando actions at Mubo, the Japanese reinforced their troops at Salamaua in January 1943, and conducted a daring operation to capture Wau". Based on a detailed analysis of the battlefield, this book outlines how the victory was achieved and demonstrates how determined leadership can turn the tide of battle.

Book Victory in Papua

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  • Author : Samuel Milner
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002-12
  • ISBN : 9781410203861
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Victory in Papua written by Samuel Milner and published by . This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strategic significance of the Papuan Campaign can be briefly stated. In addition to blunting the Japanese thrust toward Australia and the transpacific line of communications, it put General MacArthur's forces in a favorable position to take the offensive. But this little known campaign is significant for still another reason. It was the battle test of a large hitherto-inexperienced U.S. Army force and its commanders under the conditions which were to attend much of the ground fighting in the Pacific. Costly in casualties and suffering, it taught lessons that the Army had to learn if it was to cope with the Japanese under conditions of tropical warfare. Samuel Milner holds a graduate degree in history from the University of Alberta and has done further graduate work in political science at the University of Minnesota. During World War II, he served in Australia and New Guinea as a historian with the Air Transport Command, Army Air Forces. Upon completing Victory in Papua he left the Office of the Chief of Military History to become historian of the Air Weather Service, U.S. Air Force.

Book Fighting the People s War

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  • Author : Jonathan Fennell
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2019-01-24
  • ISBN : 1107030951
  • Pages : 967 pages

Download or read book Fighting the People s War written by Jonathan Fennell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 967 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British and Commonwealth armies. He analyses why the great battles were won and lost and how the men that fought went on to change the world.

Book Prelude to Battle of Wau

Download or read book Prelude to Battle of Wau written by Ronald Gordon Mackie and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hell s Battlefield

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  • Author : Phillip Bradley
  • Publisher : Allen & Unwin
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 1742372708
  • Pages : 549 pages

Download or read book Hell s Battlefield written by Phillip Bradley and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2012 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first book to tell the whole story of the Australians against the Japanese in Papua New Guinea during World War II. This is the war as the men described it in diaries, letters and memoirs. And in interviews with war correspondents, official historians and archivists, the author has reconstructed and bought to life the war from the perspective of the men who were there"--Inside front cover.

Book Hirohito s War

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  • Author : Francis Pike
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2016-09-08
  • ISBN : 1350021229
  • Pages : 1209 pages

Download or read book Hirohito s War written by Francis Pike and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 1209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of Foreign Affairs' Best Books of 2016 In his magisterial 1,208 page narrative of the Pacific War, Francis Pike's Hirohito's War offers an original interpretation, balancing the existing Western-centric view with attention to the Japanese perspective on the conflict. As well as giving a 'blow-by-blow' account of campaigns and battles, Francis Pike offers many challenges to the standard interpretations with regards to the causes of the war; Emperor Hirohito's war guilt; the inevitability of US Victory; the abilities of General MacArthur and Admiral Yamamoto; the role of China, Great Britain and Australia; military and naval technology; and the need for the fire-bombing of Japan and the eventual use of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hirohito's War is accompanied by additional online resources, including more details on logistics, economics, POWs, submarines and kamikaze, as well as a 1930-1945 timeline and over 200 maps.

Book Hell s Battlefield

    Book Details:
  • Author : Phillip Bradley
  • Publisher : Allen & Unwin
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 1743317557
  • Pages : 545 pages

Download or read book Hell s Battlefield written by Phillip Bradley and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2013 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first single volume history to cover all the battles fought by the Australians against the Japanese in Papua New Guinea.

Book To Salamaua

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  • Author : Phillip Bradley
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2010-07-02
  • ISBN : 0521763908
  • Pages : 391 pages

Download or read book To Salamaua written by Phillip Bradley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the first of the New Guinea offensives by the Australian Army in WWII.

Book Jungle Warriors

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  • Author : Adrian Threlfall
  • Publisher : Allen & Unwin
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 1742372201
  • Pages : 335 pages

Download or read book Jungle Warriors written by Adrian Threlfall and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australians are acknowledged as being among the best, if not the best, jungle fighters. This fascinating and revealing history explores how the Australian soldier evolved from being trained for and fighting European and desert wars, fought in open country often by large numbers of troops, to the very close warfare of jungle combat.

Book Tarakan

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  • Author : Peter Stanley
  • Publisher : Allen & Unwin
  • Release : 1997-04-01
  • ISBN : 1925268586
  • Pages : 287 pages

Download or read book Tarakan written by Peter Stanley and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945, 240 Australians died taking the small Borneo island of Tarakan from the Japanese. The tragedy of Tarakan was that by the time they succeeded, they need not have begun. Peter Stanley explores that battle, what it was like and what it means to us over fifty years on. He traces the operation from its origins in MacArthur's GHQ, down to the rifle sections patrolling in Tarakan's rugged jungle. Tarakan: An Australian Tragedy suggests new ways of looking at Australia's experience of war. It critically appraises the view that the Borneo campaign was unnecessary, arguing that it was a justifiable operation doomed by the politics of coalition warfare and by bad planning. Tarakan: An Australian Tragedy illuminates the Australian experience of war. Through it, we can hear the men on Tarakan - scared, angry, humorous, proud, bitter and, above all, Australian - the voices of a vanished Australia. Tarakan: An Australian Tragedy is the story of people at war, how it affected them, and how we have remembered it and them.

Book The Wau to Salamaua Campaign 1943

Download or read book The Wau to Salamaua Campaign 1943 written by Bill Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Semut

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  • Author : Christine Helliwell
  • Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
  • Release : 2021-07-02
  • ISBN : 014379003X
  • Pages : 456 pages

Download or read book Semut written by Christine Helliwell and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: March 1945. A handful of young Allied operatives are parachuted into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of Borneo, east of Singapore, there to recruit the island’s indigenous Dayak peoples to fight the Japanese. Yet most have barely encountered Asian or indigenous people before, speak next to no Borneo languages, and know little about Dayaks, other than that they have been – and may still be – headhunters. They fear that on arrival the Dayaks will kill them or hand them over to the Japanese. For their part, some Dayaks have never before seen a white face. So begins the story of Operation Semut, an Australian secret operation launched by the organisation codenamed Services Reconnaisance Department – popularly known as Z Special Unit – in the final months of WWII. Anthropologist Christine Helliwell has called on her years of first-hand knowledge of Borneo, interviewed more than one hundred Dayak people and all the remaining Semut operatives, and consulted thousands of military and other documents to piece together this astonishing story. Focusing on the operation's activities along two of Borneo’s great rivers – the Baram and Rejang – the book provides a detailed military history of Semut II’s and Semut III’s brutal guerrilla campaign against the Japanese, and reveals the decisive but long-overlooked Dayak role in the operation. But this is no ordinary history. Helliwell captures vividly the sounds, smells and tastes of the jungles into which the operatives are plunged, an environment so terrifying that many are unsure whether jungle or Japanese is the greater enemy. And she takes us into the lives and cavernous longhouses of the Dayaks on whom their survival depends. The result is a truly unique account of the encounter between two very different cultures amidst the savagery of the Pacific War.

Book Australia 1943

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  • Author : Peter J. Dean
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-09-27
  • ISBN : 1107037999
  • Pages : 341 pages

Download or read book Australia 1943 written by Peter J. Dean and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia 1943 is the first detailed single-volume study of Australia's military operations in the Pacific during 1943 - Australia's 'finest hour' in the Second World War. It investigates critical operations from January 1943 to April 1944, including Salamaua, Lae/Nadzab, Finschhafen, Shaggy Ridge, the Markham Valley and the Huon Peninsula.

Book Jungle Victory

Download or read book Jungle Victory written by Australia. Australian Army and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: