Interviews with Australian veterans, 2002–2004
John Akhurst, 39th Battalion
Stan Bissett, 2/14th Battalion
Harvey Blundell, 55/53rd Battalion
Charlie Butler, 2/14th Battalion
Basil Catterns, 2/1st Battalion (twice)
George Cops, 39th Battalion
Jim Coy, 2/14th Battalion
Paul Cullen, 2/1st Battalion (twice)
Don Daniels, 39th Battalion
Warwick Davis, 55/53rd Battalion
Bill Guest, 39th Battalion
Trevor Harper, 55/53rd Battalion
Laurie Howson, 39th Battalion
Bob Iskov, 2/14th Battalion
Bill Jenkins, 2/2nd Battalion
Keith Norrish, 2/16th Battalion
George Palmer, 39th Battalion
Matt Power, 2/14th Battalion
Phil Rhoden, 2/14th Battalion
Merv Roberts, 2/33rd Battalion
Jack Stevens, 55/53rd Battalion
Frank Sublet, 2/16th Battalion (brief phone conversation)
John Trevan, 39th Battalion
George Woodward, 2/14th Battalion
Roy Wootten, 55/53rd Battalion
Peter Wright, 55/53rd Battalion
Dr Steven Bullard, director of the Australia–Japan Research Project, Australian War Memorial
Angela Catterns, daughter of Basil Catterns, 2/1st Battalion
Dr Chris Coulthard-Clark, historian, Australian War Memorial
George Friend, director of Rising Sun Films
Brian Honner, son of Ralph Honner
Philippa Honner, granddaughter of Ralph Honner
Richard Honner, son of Ralph Honner
Professor David Horner, Australian National University
Bill James, Kokoda trekker and writer
Tom Keneally, novelist
Edward Lewis, grandson of Essington Lewis
Charlie Lynn, NSW Senator, Kokoda tour guide
Lex McAulay, military historian
Dr Hank Nelson, Australian National University
Rusty Priest, chairman of Kokoda Memorial Foundation, former RSL president
John Rennie, organiser of Isurava Memorial
Peter Stanley, Australian War Memorial
Geoff Steward, son of Major ‘Blue’ Steward
Frank Taylor, director of Kokoda Treks & Tours
Garry Tongs, son of Bede Tongs, 3rd Battalion
Access was kindly granted to the private papers of:
Les Bastock, 55/53rd Battalion
Stan Bissett, 2/14th Battalion
Harvey Blundell, 55/53rd Battalion
Basil Catterns, 2/1st Battalion
Paul Cullen, 2/1st Battalion
Ralph Honner, 39th Battalion
Laurie Howson, 39th Battalion
Bill Jenkins, 2/2nd Battalion
Frank McLean, 2/27th Battalion
D.J. O’Dell, 55/53rd Battalion
Merv Roberts, 2/33rd Battalion
Lew Scott, 55/53rd Battalion
Peter Wright, 55/53rd Battalion The private papers of Kokoda veterans held in the AWM were also used (see following)
AWM 49 89/9, Letter, Rowell to Hetherington
AWM 54 171/2/48, AWM 54 225/2/5, AWM 54 420/2/2, AWM 54 541/1/4, AWM 54 577/3/1, AWM 54 577/6/1, AWM 54 577/6/4, AWM 54 577/6/8, AWM 54 577/7/29, AWM 54 917/3/13 [general papers relating to the Papuan campaign]
AWM 54, Report on Operations of the Milne Forces
AWM 54, Australian Imperial Forces Battle Casualties, Owen Stanley Campaign, Kokoda to Imita, 22 July to 25 September 1942
AWM 54 33/1/4, Official Army File dealing with the action by the Commander-in-Chief (General Blamey) in relieving Lieutenant General S.F. Rowell of the Command of New Guinea Force, 1942
AWM 54 422/7/8, Notes on Ops Isurava area, 25–31 August 1942
AWM 54 481/12/20, Diary of Sir Rupert Magarey
AWM 54 571/1/2, General Routine Orders by General Sir Thomas Blamey, circa 1939–circa 1945
AWM 54 577/6/8, Report on Kokoda L. of C., Native Carriers during Campaign, Owen Stanley Range, Kokoda—Buna, Feb 1943, ANGAU N.G.F.
AWM 54 581/7/19, Notes on and lessons from recent operations in Gona and Sanananda areas by Lt Col R. Honner—Comd 39th Aust Inf Bn
AWM 113 MH 1/160 PARTS 1–10, Weekly Progress Reports of the Chiefs of Staff to the Prime Minister [War Cabinet Agenda] 1942
AWM 419 14/2, OPS Report by Captain S.H. Buckler, 12 Oct 1942
AWM 419 47/24, John Hetherington, Papers
AWM 419/72/9 PR 85/275, Memoir of Service of Major A.E. Moore of 2/14th & 2/16th Bns
AWM 422/3/94 MSS 701, A.D. Robertson, Problems of Supply Encountered by the Australian and Japanese forces on the Kokoda Trail and the Questions of Morale, MA thesis
AWM 422/3/138 MSS 0739, Horner, D., Generals in Battle, Problems of Command in the South-West Pacific Area, 1942–1943, MA thesis
AWM 3DRL No. 999 AWM file 419/14/2, OPS Report by Captain S.H. Buckler, A Coy 2/14, AIF
AWM 3DRL No. 2381 AWM file 419, Papers of Sir Arthur Allen
AWM 3DRL No. 6643, Papers of General Sir Thomas Blamey
AWM PR00527 Box 10, Papers of Major-General Selwyn Porter
AWM EF 940.54S6 L253, Allied Air Forces, South West Pacific Area, Directorate of Intelligence, Land–Air Offensive in New Guinea, Kokoda to Gona-Buna, Nov 2nd 1942–Jan 23rd 1943 [photos and maps depicting aerial bombing campaign]
AWM 42/401/142, Combat Efficiency of Army Units, Training and Preparation for Operations, in Operations Report for Australian Army, 19 July 1942
ML DOC 2091, WW2 Imperial Rescript—Declaration of War
ML MSS. 614, Gill, E., Correspondence 1924–46
ML MSS. 1097, Papers of Damien Parer
ML MSS. 1825, Papers of Alan Watson
ML MSS. 3326, Papers of John Murray
CRS A373, Disturbances between Australian and American Troops, 1942–1943
CRS A816, Churchill’s Speech on Singapore, 23rd April 1942
CRS A816, Organisations of the RAAF—File No. 1, 30/9/44 (RAAF Command Allied Air Force), 1942–1944
CRS A816/1, Cablegrams from Curtin to London concerning return of AIF
CRS A816, Strategical Situation in Far East and Pacific following the Fall of Singapore
CRS A816, Communications Facilities in the SWPA Committee formed by General MacArthur
CRS A816, Review of Production of War Material. General MacArthur’s Statement of Priorities
CRS A1608, War Section. Visit of Sir Thomas Blamey to Australia, 1941
CRS A2670, War Cabinet Agenda, 1939–1943
CRS A2671, War Cabinet Minutes, 1939–1943
CRS A2671, Co-ordinated plans for the defence of Australia
CRS A2671 Department of Aircraft Production Progress Reports, 1942
CRS A2676, War Cabinet Minutes without Agenda Files, 1939–43
CRS A2676, Aircraft production policy and administrative machinery for the direction of the aircraft industry
CRS A2676, Tank production
CRS A3052, Running List of War Cabinet and Advisory War Council Agenda
CRS A3300/7 101, Far East Policy, SWPA
CRS A5954, Future Employment of AIF—all files
CRS A5954, miscellaneous files on Army control of New Guinea, troops’ pay, New Guinea resources, goldfields, etc
CRS A5954, Sir Frederick Shedden Papers (boxes 532, 537, 573, 587)
CRS A5954 256/3, Inquiries into Looting at Darwin and Port Moresby
CRS A5954 266/1, Dept of Defence—Higher Army Directions of Operations in New Guinea
CRS A5954 473/4, Incidence of Malaria in Forces in New Guinea
CRS A5954 532/5, Operations in New Guinea—Reports by Ministers for Army and Air on their Visits to New Guinea, October ’42
CRS A5954 563/4, Policy and Strategy for Conduct of the War in the Pacific
CRS A5954 569/2, Strategical Policy in South West Pacific Area—with special reference to Australia as a base
CRS A5954 573/1–2, Future Employment of AIF—Transfer from Middle East to Far East, 1941–1942
CRS A5954 581/17, Exchange of cablegrams between Mr Churchill and Mr Curtin after the outbreak of war with Japan, 1941–1943; Defence of Australia—appreciation of immediate danger of invasion in force, 7/12/41–30/10/42
CRS A5954 610/1, Australia’s overseas defence forces—war correspondents, war records and broadcasters. Press photography in combat areas
CRS A5954 653/7, Dept of Defence Co-ordination—Defence of Port Moresby, Paper by Secretary, Department of Defence, 30 September 1942
CRS A5954 654/26, Department of Defence Co-Ordination: United States Forces In New Guinea Campaign—Assessment by Commander-in-Chief, Australian Military Forces, 4 December 1942
CRS A5954 1300/1, Strategical Plans for Defence of Australia following arrival of General MacArthur, March 1942
CRS A5954 1943/1, AIF & Militia Question of Merging Employment of Militia Outside Australia
CRS A5954, Defence of Australia 1942—complete files
CRS A5954,AIF and Militia. Question of Merging. Employment of Militia Outside Australia. Amendment of Defence Act
CRS A5954, War in the Pacific, December 1941
CRS A5954, Australia’s Overseas Defence Forces, 28/12/39—23/2/45
CRS A5954, Mr Curtin’s speeches, 1941
CRS A5954, Defence of Port Moresby, 30th September 1942
CRS A5954, Defence of Port Moresby. Master sheets
CRS A5954, Higher Army Direction of Operations in New Guinea
CRS A5954, Criticisms of Australia’s War Effort by Hanson Baldwin, New York Times
CRS A5954, Commander Allied Land Forces. Report on New Guinea operations, 23/9/42–23/1/43
CRS A5954, Land Forces in Southwest Pacific Area
CRS A5954, Summary of positions in New Guinea and Solomon Islands, 30th October 1942
CRS A5954, Military Call-up in Papua and New Guinea
CRS A5954, United States Forces in New Guinea Campaign, 4 December 1942
CRS A5954, Procedure in Connection with Correspondence with Commander-in-Chief, South West Pacific Area
CRS A5954, Army administration and policy
CRS A5954, Operations in New Guinea, 23 November 1942
CRS A5954, New Guinea operations. Papuan campaign
CRS A5954, Report on operations—New Guinea Forces, 11 August 1942– 28 September 1942
CRS A5954, Alleged misconduct of troops at Port Moresby
CRS A5954, 1. Pacific Action—Midway Battle. 2. New Guinea Position, 1942
CRS A5954, Operations in New Guinea, October 1942
CRS A5954, Rates of pay and conditions of service, 1945
CRS A5954, Evacuation of essential industry and civil population from coastal areas of New South Wales
CRS A5954/1 230/13, Provision of Aircraft for Air Ambulances in New Guinea, 31/12/42–7/4/43
CRS A12728 Master Sheets of Top Secret Inward and Outward Cables, with WINCH [Winston Churchill], JOHCU [John Curtin], ARDEN [Arthur Fadden] or GORDON [Robert Menzies] prefixes
CRS M100, Personal Papers of Prime Minister Bruce, January–December 1942
CRS M1415–M1416, Personal Papers of Prime Minister Curtin, 11 November 1941–5 May 1942
CRS MP76/3 G254, General Blamey—correspondence [with Army Inventions Directorate] 1942
CRS MP729/7 64/421/38, Pay and Allowances of General Sir Thomas A. Blamey, 1941–1942
CRS MP956/2 103, Reports of the Director-General of Munitions to the Prime Minister for the information of War Cabinet
CRS SP109/1 78/12/51, Film, Mr Curtin Talks for the Talkies
CRS SP112/1, Curtin’s broadcast talks over the national network
Map room
Imanishi Sadaharu, 144th Infantry Regiment
Shimada Yuki, 144th Infantry Regiment
Yamasaki Yukiharu, 144th Infantry Regiment
Met and talked with several veterans and family members who have not been named, and who attended the reunion of the 144th Regiment, in Kochi, October 2003
Dr Steven Bullard, director of the Australia–Japan Research Project, Australian War Memorial
Marutani Hajime, student of Japanese military history, interpreter, in Sydney and Kochi
Professor Tanaka Hiromi, Japanese military historian, in Tokyo, October 2003
Nobohiko Sugimoto, son of Nankai Shitai veteran—several meetings in Sydney, 2002
Dr Keiko Tamura, Australia–Japan Research Project, Australian War Memorial
Fujitani Hiroyuki
Hirano, Tsukamoto Daitai
Hisaeda Akiyoshi
Kure 3rd Special Naval Landing Party, notes for unit commanders
Moritomo Yoshiuki
Nada Kozo, Signal Tai
Nagafune
Okajima, 34th Butai
Okamoto Shigeo
Sakamoto, 55th Mountain Artillery
Sato Toshio, Ikeda Tai
Shin Shunji, Tsukioka Daitai (Korean)
Uchiyama Seiichi, Kenmotsu Butai
Sadahiro
Wada Kiyoshi, 144th Regiment signal unit
Watanabe Toshio, Tsukamoto Daitai
Yamada, Umemura Tai
Various diaries and notebooks of unknown soldiers
Fusai Iwataro, Setsuetai (Pioneer unit)
Ikeda Tomoichi, Tanaka Butai
Katsukara Kanemidzu, Yokosuka No. 5 Special Naval Landing Party (a very unusual name; the sound can mean ‘give me your money and water, then we will win’—so it is probably an alias)
Kondo Yuzo
Kunisawa Yuki, Kusunose Butai
Matsuoka Kazuo
Miyaji Chikara
Naka Masao (alias Yamashita Hideo), 41st (Yazawa) Regiment
Okino Jiro
Sakaki Minoru, Kure No. 5 Special Naval Landing Party
Sato Tetsuro
Tsuno Keishin, Kusunose Butai
Yabuguchi, Watanabe Butai
Yamada Kazuo, Kusunose Butai
Yamaguchi Masahiro
Yamamoto Kiyoshi, Yamanaka Butai
Yoshimoto Yoshihiro, Yokoyama Butai
Watanabe Fukuichi, Yazawa Regiment
AWM 55 ATIS Bulletins 1/1 Nos 1–99 [containing Japanese intelligence assessments, battle orders, unit diaries and notebooks]
AWM 55 ATIS Bulletins 1/2 Nos 100–199
AWM 55 ATIS Bulletins 1/3 Nos 200–279
AWM 55 ATIS Bulletins 1/9 Nos 526–565
AWM 55 ATIS Bulletins 1/10 Nos 566–605
AWM 55 ATIS Bulletins 1/33 Nos 1476–1510
AWM 55 ATIS Current Translations 3/2 [containing Japanese diaries and unit documents]
AWM 55 ATIS Current Translations 3/3 Nos 26–35
AWM 55 ATIS Current Translations 3/5 Nos 51–64
AWM 55 ATIS Enemy Publications 5/1 Nos 1–13 [containing assorted Japanese military documents found on Japanese corpses or in prisoners’ possession]
AWM 55 ATIS Enemy Publications 5/2 Nos 14–26
AWM 55 ATIS Enemy Publications 5/2 No. 27, Field Log of Sakigawa Tai
AWM 55 ATIS Enemy Publications 5/2 No. 29, File of Miscellaneous orders and Bulletins 9 November–8 December 1942 compiled by Giruwa L of C Field Hospital
AWM 55 ATIS Enemy Publications 5/2 No. 33, File of Nankai Shitai Orders, 16 August–15 October 1942
AWM 55 ATIS Enemy Publications 5/2 No. 38, File of Nankai Shitai Orders, 13 May–10 July 1942
AWM 55 ATIS Enemy Publications 5/2 No. 39, File of Nankai Shitai Orders, 2 October–7 November 1942
AWM 55 ATIS Enemy Publications 5/3 No. 28, Intelligence Reports Issued by Yazawa Butai HQ
AWM 55 ATIS Enemy Publications 5/4 Nos 44–48 (‘True Examples of War Living’ in Japan—Contest Winners)
AWM 55 ATIS Enemy Publications 5/6 No. 76
AWM 55 ATIS Enemy Publications 5/8 No. 93
AWM 55 ATIS Enemy Publications 5/22 No. 255, Procedure in Interrogating and Handling Prisoners of War
AWM 55 ATIS Enemy Publications 5/25 Nos 285–302
AWM 55 ATIS Interrogation Reports 6/1 Nos 9, 10, 28, 34, 36, 37, 39, 44, 48, 71 [containing summaries of interrogations of Japanese POWs]
AWM 55 ATIS Interrogation Reports 6/2 Nos 51–80
AWM 55 ATIS Interrogation Reports 6/3 Nos 81–145
AWM 55 ATIS Interrogation Reports 6/4 Nos 146–195
AWM 55 ATIS Information Request Reports 12/1–12/23 [containing specific information sought from Japanese sources and POWs]
AWM 55 ATIS Information Request Reports 12/24–12/36
AWM 55 ATIS Interrogation Spot Reports 7/1 Nos 12, 14, 18, 24, 27, 28, 29, 31, 33, 65, 70
AWM 55 ATIS ‘M’ Reports 9/1–9/11 [containing reports of Allied covert monitoring of Japanese POWs’ conversations and behaviour]
AWM 55 ATIS Research Reports 12/53 [containing detailed analyses of the character of Japanese army, based on information from Japanese POWs commissioned by General MacArthur]:
—Part I: Self-Immolation as a Factor in Japanese Military Psychology, 4 April 1944
—Part II: The Emperor Cult as a Present Factor in Japanese Military Psychology, 21 June 1944
—Part III: The Warrior Tradition as a Present Factor in Japanese Military Psychology, 30 October 1944
—Part IV: Prominent Factors in Japanese Military Psychology, 7 February 1945
—Part V: Superstitions as a Present Factor in Japanese Military Psychology, 24 February 1945
—Part VI: Defects Arising from the Doctrine of ‘Spiritual Superiority’ as Factors in Japanese Military Psychology
AWM 55 ATIS Research Reports 12/50 Parts 1, 2 & 3, Japanese Violations of the Laws of War, 29 April 1944
AWM 55 ATIS Research Reports 12/89, Infringement of the Laws of War and Ethics by the Japanese Medical Corps, 26 January ’45
AWM 55 ATIS Research Reports 12/94, Antagonism between Officers and Men in the Japanese Armed Forces, 19 April ’45
AWM 55 ATIS Nankai Shitai Operational Orders for the Invasion of Port Moresby, August 1942
AWM 55 ATIS Spot Reports 2/1 Nos 1–120 [containing translations of brief instructions to troops, notebooks, diaries and interrogations]
The Diary of a Japanese Soldier at Wewak, translated and with an introductory essay by Dr Keiko Tamura, Australia–Japan Research Project
AWM F940.541352 MON 1521, Yoshihara T., Southern Cross: Account Of The Eastern New Guinea Campaign (translated by Doris Heath)
AWM 55 492/7/22 MSS 732, Okada, S., Lost Troops (translated by Dr Keiko Tamura)
Japanese Monographs [a history of the Pacific War written by Japanese commanders, commissioned by General MacArthur, on microfiche], Reels 24, 33, 34, 37, 45, 96, 127, 143, 146, 150, 152
South East Area Army Operations, Lessons learned from battles at Buna and Giruwa and intelligence on future army operations (extracts translated by Dr Steve Bullard, Australian War Memorial)
Yukon Kochi-ken Kyodo Senshi, 1 November 1974, Kochi Prefecture
Signals Coy, 144th Regiment (editing committee), Hohei Dai 144 Rentai Tsushin Chutai Shi (History of Signals Company, 144th Infantry Regiment), 1986
For a full list of Japanese Army unit histories, see the bibliography by Dr Iwamoto Hiromitsu,
Australia–Japan Research Project, Australian War Memorial web site
Allen, B., and Tamura, K., ‘Attitudes of Japanese Troops towards villagers and the supply of food in the inland Aitape-Wewak Campaign, Papua New Guinea, 1942–45’, presented at The 5th Symposium:The Pacific War in Papua New Guinea, Perceptions and Realities, Australian National University, 7–8 August 2003
Bleechmore, S.J., ‘Road Construction in Papua New Guinea in Support of Operations on the Kokoda Track and at Buna-Gona, August 1942 to February 1943’, AWM 54
Bullard, S., ‘Japanese Medical Corps in the Papuan Campaign 1942–1943’, presented at The 5th Symposium, as above
Coulthard-Clark, C., ‘Blamey: A Commander-in-Chief for the Times’, The Blamey Oration to the Royal United Service Institution of NSW, in United Service, Vol. 53, No. 2, 2001
Friday, K., ‘Bushido or Bull? A Medieval Historian’s Perspective on the Imperial Army and the Japanese Warrior Tradition’, The History Teacher, Volume 27, Issue 3, Pages 339–49, 1994
Grebert, R., Australian VC Recipients, 1990
Hiromitsu, I., ‘Memories and Realities of Japanese Occupation of New Guinea’, presented at The 5th Symposium, as above
Honner, R., ‘The 39th at Isurava’, Australian Army Journal, July 1967
Honner, R., ‘This is the 39th’, The Bulletin, 3 August 1995
Jones, E., ‘Far Eastern Liaison Office; Propaganda in the South West Pacific Area in the Second World War’, AWM Reference Library presentation
Lindsay, P., ‘The Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Honner Leadership Oration’, at the Kokoda Track Foundation dinner, 20 August 2003
Marutani, H., ‘An Examination of How Race Affected the Far Eastern War’, essay, Masters degree, Australian National University
Nelson, H., a brief profile of the life of Dr Geoffrey Vernon (sent to the author)
Nelson, H., ‘Kokoda: The Track from History to Politics’, presented at the State Society and Governance in Melanesia Project seminar, Australian National University, 19 September 2002
Nelson, H., ‘Zentsuji and Totsuka: Australians from Rabaul as Prisoners of War in Japan’, presented at The 5th Symposium, as above
Phillips, W.H.J., ‘The Homefront, 1942–1945’, Phillips Publications, Coffs Harbour
Sakaiya, T., ‘Hirohito & The Imperial Tradition’, PHP Intersect Magazine, 1984
Wada, K., ‘Painting over my shame’, from The Signals Company Records: 144th Infantry Regiment (Kochi), Kobayashi Eijuro (ed.), 144th Infantry Regiment Signals Company Editing Committee, Kochi, 1986
Wyatt, P., ‘The Quality of Mercy’, The Spectator, 1 February 2003
Guinea Gold
Jungle Warfare 6 Australian Division, Training Instruction No. 11, First Australian Army Press, 1943
Moresby Army News Sheet
The Age
Daily Telegraph (Sydney)
Melbourne Herald
Melbourne Argus
Smith’s Weekly
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald, 3–4 August 2002, p. 29
Sydney Morning Herald, 19 January 2004, p. 38
Wartime, official magazine of the Australian War Memorial, issues 19, 20, 21
Weekend Australian, 15–16 June 2002, p. 24
Weekend Australian, 15–16 February 2003, p. 25
Hirohito: The Chrysanthemum Throne
Kokoda Front Line, by Damien Parer, 1942
Kokoda…the Bloody Track, by Patrick Lindsay and George Friend, for the Australian Army Training Command, 1992
Kokoda…the Last Parade, by Patrick Lindsay, Billybob Productions, 1999
MacArthur (Parts 1 and 2), by Austin and Sarah Holt
The Men Who Saved Australia, ‘Four Corners’, reported by Chris Masters, produced by Jacquelyn Hole, 27 April 1998
Northern Attack: War on Australia, 19 February 1942, produced by Darwin City Council
AWM F01807, Blamey’s Farewell to Troops
AWM F01809, Advance on Kokoda
AWM F01914, General Blamey
AWM F01935, Blamey Inspects 2/33rd Battalion
AWM F10250, The Battle of Buna
Murdoch Sound Archives [containing transcripts of interviews with troops from various battalions]
Keith Richmond, extensive research on Japanese logistics, on CD
Australian War Memorial: www.awm.gov.au, with links to Australia–Japan Research Project (see The Human Face of War series on the Japanese army, translated by Steve Bullard and Keiko Tamura)
Unit War Diaries, links on the Australian War Memorial web site
National Archives of Australia: www.naa.gov.au
43rd Bomb Group, 5th Air Force (USA): www.kensmen.com
Various historical web sites concerning the lives of John Curtin, Douglas MacArthur, Thomas Blamey, the Emperor Hirohito and Premier Tojo
2/14th Battalion, Brisbane, 2002
21st Brigade, Sydney, 2003
55/53rd Battalion, Anzac Day, 2003
144th Regiment, Kochi City, October 2003
Allchin, F., Purple and Blue:The History of the 2/10th Battalion AIF, 2/10th Ex-Servicemen’s Association, Adelaide, 1960
Austin, V., To Kokoda and Beyond:The Story of the 39th Battalion 1941–43, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1988
Baker, C., and Knight, G., Milne Bay 1942, Baker-Knight Publications, Sydney, 1991
Ballard, G., On Ultra Active Service, Spectrum, Richmond (Victoria), 1991
Barrett, J., We Were There: Australian Soldiers of World War II Tell Their Stories, Viking, Sydney, 1987
Barter, M., Far Above Battle:The Experience and Memory of Australian Soldiers in War, 1939–1945, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1994
Beevor, A., Stalingrad, Penguin, London, 1999
Benedict, R., The Crysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture, Houghton-Mifflin, New York, 1989
Bergerud, E., Touched with Fire: the Land War in the South Pacific, Viking, New York, 1996
Blamey, T. (ed.), The Jap was Thrashed: An Official History of the Australian Soldier, First Victor of the ‘INVINCIBLE’ JAP, New Guinea 1942–1943, Director General of [Army] Public Relations under the authority of General Sir Thomas Blamey
Bleakley, J., The Eavesdroppers, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1992
Brune, P., A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in Papua, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2004
Brune, P., Gona’s Gone! The Battle for the Beach-head 1942, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1994
Brune, P., The Spell Broken: Exploding the Myth of Japanese Invincibility, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1997
Brune, P., Those Ragged Bloody Heroes: From the Kokoda Trail to Gona Beach 1942, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1991
Brune, P., We Band of Brothers: A Biography of Ralph Honner, Soldier and Statesman, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2000
Budden, F., That Mob:The Story of the 55/53rd Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, Sydney, 1973
Burns, J., The Brown and Blue Diamond at War, 2/27th Ex-Servicemen’s Association, Adelaide, 1960
Buruma, I., Inventing Japan, From Empire to Economic Miracle 1853–1964, Modern Library, New York, 2003
Carlyon, N.D., I Remember Blamey, Macmillan, Melbourne, 1980
Carlyon, L., Gallipoli, Pan Macmillan, Sydney, 2001
Charlton, P., The Thirty-Niners, Macmillan, Sydney, 1981
Charlton, P., War Against Japan 1942–1945, Time-Life Books, Sydney, 1989
Clarrie, J., Angau: One Man Law
Clowes, C., The Clowes Report on the Battle of Milne Bay, 1942, Australian Military History Publications, Loftus, 1995
Connell, D., The War at Home: Australia 1939–1945, ABC Enterprises, Crows Nest, 1988
Clift, K., The Saga of a Sig:The Wartime Memories of Six Years Service in the Second AIF, KCD Publications, Randwick, Sydney, 1972
Clift, K., War Dance: The Story of the 2/3rd Aust. Inf. Battalion AIF, P.M. Fowler & 2/3rd Battalion Association, Kingsgrove NSW, 1980
Conway, R., The Great Australian Stupor, Sun Books, Sydney 1971
Cook, H.T. and T.F., Japan at War: An Oral History, New Press, New York 1992.
Coulthard-Clark, C., The Encyclopaedia of Australia’s Battles, Allen & Unwin, NSW, 1998
Cranston, F., Always Faithful: The History of the 49th Battalion, Boolarong, Brisbane, 1983
Crooks, W., The Footsoldiers:The Story of the 2/33rd Australian Infantry Battalion AIF in the War of 1939–45, Printcraft, Sydney, 1971
Crump, T., Death of an Emperor: Japan at the Crossroad, Constable, London, 1989
Day, D., Curtin, HarperCollins, Sydney, 2000
Day, D., Reluctant Nation: Australia and the Allied Defeat of Japan 1942–45, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992
Day, D., The Great Betrayal: Britain, Australia and the Onset of the Pacific War 1939–42, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1988
Day, D., The Politics of War, HarperCollins, Sydney, 2003
Deane-Butcher, W., Fighter Squadron Doctor: 75 Squadron RAAF New Guinea 1942, self-published, Sydney, 1989
Dexter. D., Australia in the War of 1939–1945 (series I, volume VI):The New Guinea Offensives, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1961
Dixon, N., On the Psychology of Military Incompetence, Pimlico, London, 1994
Dornan, P., The Silent Men: Syria to Kokoda and on to Gona, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1999
Draydon, A.W., Men of Courage: A History of 2/25 Australian Infantry Battalion 1940–1945, 2/25 Australian Infantry Battalion Association, Cheltenham, Victoria, 2000
Drea, E.J., MacArthur’s Ultra: Codebreaking and the War against Japan, 1942–1945, University Press of Kansas, Kansas, 1992
Edgar, B., Warrior of Kokoda: A Biography of Brigadier Arnold Potts, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1999
Eichelberger, R.L., Jungle Road to Toykyo, Odhams, London, 1951
Fearnside, G.H., and Clift, K., Dougherty: A Great Man Among Men, Alpha, Sydney, 1979
Feldt, E., The Coast Watchers, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1946
Franke, C.S., Mad Mick’s Mob: A History of the 15th Australian Field Company (AIF), 15th Australian Field Company Engineers Association, Mentone, Victoria, 1995
Gailey, H., MacArthur Strikes Back, Presido Press, Novato, California, 2000
Gallaway, J., The Odd Couple: Blamey and MacArthur at War, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane 2000
Gill, G.H., Royal Australian Navy, 1939–42, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1958
Gillison, D., Australia in the War of 1939–1945, Series 3 (Air): vol. I, Royal Australian Air Force 1939–42, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1962
Givney, E.C., The First at War:The Story of the 2/1st Australian Infantry Battalion 1939–45, Association of First Infantry Battalions, Earlwood, 1987
Graeme-Evans, A.L., Of Storms and Rainbows: The Story of the Men of the 2/1th Battalion AIF, 2/12th Battalion Association, Hobart, 1991
Hart, B.H.L., Thoughts on War, Faber and Faber, London, 1943
Hartley, F.J., Sanananda Interlude, The Book Depot, Melbourne, 1949
Hasluck, P., The Government and the People 1939–41, vols 1 & 2, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1952
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