Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Series 1 – Army - Volume Vol7
Volume VII – The Final Campaigns (1st edition, 1963)
Author: Gavin Long
This volume concludes the Army Series. It describes the Australian Army campaigns in the last months of 1944 and in 1945. It tells the full story of the fighting in Bougainville, New Britain, round Wewak, at Balikpapan and Tarakan and in British Borneo.
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Contents, Illustrations, Maps, Sketch Maps and Diagrams, Preface, and List of Events (585.72Kb PDF file)Pages i to xx
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Chapter 1 – The Final Phase Begins (2.33Mb PDF file)Pages 1 to 30
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Chapter 2 – Plans and Problems (1.67Mb PDF file)Pages 31 to 54
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Chapter 3 – The General, the Parliament and the Ministers (1.42Mb PDF file)Pages 55 to 72
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Chapter 4 – Leaders and Men (1.11Mb PDF file)Pages 73 to 88
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Chapter 5 – The Bougainville Campaign Takes Shape (2.25Mb PDF file)Pages 89 to 115
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Chapter 6 – The Offensive Opens (2.23Mb PDF file)Pages 116 to 140
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Chapter 7 – To Slater’s Knoll and Soraken (2.43Mb PDF file)Pages 141 to 176
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Chapter 8 – Across the Hari: Porton Plantation (2.91Mb PDF file)Pages 177 to 216
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Chapter 9 – The Floods and the Cease Fire (1.79Mb PDF file)Pages 217 to 240
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Chapter 10 – Operations on New Britain (2.21Mb PDF file)Pages 241 to 270
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Chapter 11 – Taking Over at Aitape (807.6Kb PDF file)Pages 271 to 281
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Chapter 12 – Across the Danmap (906.31Kb PDF file)Pages 282 to 295
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Chapter 13 – To Dagua: and Across the Amuk River (2.47Mb PDF file)Pages 296 to 329
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Chapter 14 – Maprik and Wewak Taken (2.18Mb PDF file)Pages 330 to 358
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Chapter 15 – Tazaki and Shiburangu (2.51Mb PDF file)Pages 359 to 387
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Chapter 16 – Planning for Borneo – April to June 1945 (1.22Mb PDF file)Pages 388 to 405
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Chapter 17 – Tarakan: Town and Airfield Taken (1.76Mb PDF file)Pages 406 to 426
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Chapter 18 – Tarakan: the Garrison Destroyed (1.97Mb PDF file)Pages 427 to 452
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Chapter 19 – Oboe Six Opens (1.46Mb PDF file)Pages 453 to 471
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Chapter 20 – Securing British Borneo (2.66Mb PDF file)Pages 472 to 501
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Chapter 21 – The Seizure of Balikpapan (2.46Mb PDF file)Pages 502 to 531
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Chapter 22 – Balikpapan Area Secured (1.49Mb PDF file)Pages 532 to 547
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Chapter 23 – After the Cease Fire (2.64Mb PDF file)Pages 548 to 583
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Chapter 24 – Looking Back (397.64Kb PDF file)Pages 584 to 589
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Appendix 1 – Command Problems, SWPA 1942–1945 (685.78Kb PDF file)Pages 590 to 599
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Appendix 2 – Too Many Generals? (514.13Kb PDF file)Pages 600 to 607
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appendix 3 – General Blamey’s Appreciation of May 1945 (491.01Kb PDF file)Pages 608 to 616
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Appendix 4 – The Allied Intelligence Bureau (424.38Kb PDF file)Pages 617 to 622
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Appendix 5 – The Prison Break at Cowra, August 1944 (136.11Kb PDF file)Pages 623 to 624
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Appendix 6 – Order of Battle of the 7th Division at Balikpapan (212.67Kb PDF file)Pages 625 to 632
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Appendix 7 – Some Statistics (166.02Kb PDF file)Pages 633 to 636
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Appendix 8 – Australian Army Unit Histories, War of 1939–45 (125.79Kb PDF file)Pages 637 to 638
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Appendix 9 – Abbreviations (92.88Kb PDF file)Pages 639 to 640
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Index (2.74Mb PDF file)Pages 641 to 667
