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| 1122 | DULL, Paul S. A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy (1941-1945). xvii, 402p., bibliog., illus., index. Cambridge: PSL; Annapolis: NIP, 1978. ISBN: 0870210971.
A detailed study from the Japanese point of view, mostly from previously unused sources. Obviously concentrates most on actions with the US Navy. |
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| 1123 | DUPUY, Trevor Nevitt. The Naval War in the Pacific: On to Tokyo (The Illustrated History of World War 2, vol. 12). [6], 90p., illus. New York: Watts, 1964; London: Ward, 1966.
One of the short, basic volumes in this series. |
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| 1124 | EADON, Stuart. Kamikaze: The Story of the British Pacific Fleet. [vi], 831p., bibliog., illus., index. Bristol: Crécy, 1995. ISBN: 0947554610.
First published in 1991, this is a hugely expanded oral history of the British Pacific Fleet. Incidents from over 60 ships are recalled. There is a substantial section on the growth of the Japanese empire pre-war and on its morality and a long coda on the fate of the ships of the British Pacific Fleet, while extracts from various monographs are worked into the text. Although slightly eccentric as a work it is carefully edited and shrewdly linked. |
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| 1125 | ELLIS, Albert. Mid-Pacific Outposts. 303p., illus. Auckland: Brown & Stewart, 1946.
In the main a description of the Nauru and Ocean Island Relief Expedition to receive the Japanese surrender of the islands. Also includes a brief account of the German raider attack on Nauru and of the war’s effect on the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. Of limited relevance. |
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| 1126 | FELTON, Mark. Yanagi: The Secret Underwater Trade Between Germany & Japan 1942-1945. x, 209p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2005. ISBN: 1844151670.
The first full account of how long range submarine missions were used for the exchange of technology and raw materials. |
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| 1127 | GLENTON, Bill. Mutiny in Force X. 239p., illus. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1986. ISBN: 0340380152.
The story of a hastily assembled landing force sent to the South-West Pacific in 1944. The descent into anarchy of the LSI(H) Lothian is described by one of the mutineers. |
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| 1128 | GRAY, Edwyn. Operation Pacific: The Royal Navy's War against Japan 1941-1945. xx, 268p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Cooper, 1990. I|SBN: 0850522641.
A good modern general history. |
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| 1129 | GREAT BRITAIN. Central Office of Information. Among Those Present: The Official Story of the Pacific Islands at War. 95p., illus. London: HMSO, 1946.
Describes the great gallantry shown by those British officials who stayed behind and hid from the Japanese and from those islanders who joined the fighting forces. |
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| 1130 | GREAT BRITAIN. Royal Navy. VJ: The Final Victory. 20p., illus. London: Ministry of Defence, 1995.
A brief pamphlet celebrating the role of the British Pacific Fleet. |
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| 1131 | GUNTON, Dennis. The Penang Submarines: Penang and Submarine Operations 1942-45. [11], 64, xiip., bibliog., illus. Penang: City Council of George Town, 1970.
A brief account of German and Japanese submarine operations based on or in Penang waters. |
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| 1132 | HARPER, Norman. A Great and Powerful Friend: A Study of Australian American Relations Between 1900 and 1975. x, 416p., bibliog., index. St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, 1987. ISBN: 0702217557.
An important work which delineates the changing nature of the relationship over time. |
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| 1133 | HOBBS, David. The British Pacific Fleet: The Royal Navy's Most Powerful Strike Force. xvii, 462 p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Seaforth, 2011. ISBN: 1848320485.
This ground-breaking work by David Hobbs describes the background, creation and expansion of the BPF from its first tentative strikes, through operations off the coast of Japan to its impact on the immediate post-war period, including the opinions of USN liaison officers attached to the British flagships. The book is the first to demonstrate the real scope and scale of the BPF s impressive achievement. |
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| 1134 | HOPKINS, Harold. Nice to Have You Aboard. 217, [6]p., illus. London: Allen & Unwin; Don Mills, Ont.: Nelson, 1964. ISBN: 1135621683.
A personal tale of the war in the Pacific from 1943 to 1945, by a British naval officer attached to the US Pacific Fleet. |
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| 1135 | HOWLETT, Robert A. The History of the Fiji Military Forces 1939-1945, Compiled from Official Records and Diaries. 267p., illus. London: Crown Agents, 1948.
The Fiji Forces served with distinction, earning one VC and many other decorations. This book records their part in the island-hopping Pacific War. |
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| 1136 | ITO, Masanori. The End of the Imperial Japanese Navy. 240p., illus. New York: Norton, 1962; London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963.
A short Japanese view of the war in the Far East. Mainly concerned with the battles against the US Navy. |
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| 1137 | JENKINS, David. Battle Surface! Japan's Submarine War against Australia 1942-44. 304p., bibliog., illus., index. Milsons Point: Random Century Australia, 1992. ISBN: 0091826381.
A defence correspondent’s well-illustrated but basic and popularised account of the war around the Australian Coast. Well researched. |
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| 1138 | LIND, Lew. Toku-Tai: Japanese Submarine Operations in Australian Waters. 160p., bibliog., illus., index. Maryborough: Kangaroo, 1992. ISBN: 0864174462.
A miscellaneous collection of bits and pieces ranging from the X-craft attack on the Tirpitz to the current view of the preservation of historic shipwrecks, via a long section on the Sydney Harbour attack and tantalising mentions of the intelligence role of Hector. |
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| 1139 | LONG, Gavin. The Final Campaigns. (Australia in the War of 1939-1945. Series One: Army; Vol. 7). xx, 667p., illus., index. Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1963.
This seventh and final volume in the army series of the Australian official history describes the operations of the First Australian Army in 1944-1945 in Bougainville, New Britain and Australian New Guinea, where about 170,000 Japanese were isolated; and of the well-armed and well-supported 7th and 9th Divisions in Borneo in the last great Allied offensive of the war. |
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| 1140 | MACINTYRE, Donald. The Battle for the Pacific. 240p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Batsford; New York: Norton, 1966.
A condensed but accurate general history. |
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| 1141 | McCONNOCHIE, Ian. Admiralty Islands Annexed: Battle for Manus, 29 February-1 May 1944 (Naval Historical Society, Monograph No. 31). 14pp.,illus. Garden Island: Naval Historical Society of Australia, 1993).
Warramunga was involved in this essentially American assault. |
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