Volume VII – The Final Campaigns (1st edition, 1963)

Second World War Official Histories

- Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Series 1 – Army

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Accession Number	RCDIG1070206
Collection type	Digitised Collection
Record type	Volume
Item count	1
Object type	Book
Maker	Long, Gavin Merrick
Conflict	Second World War, 1939-1945

Description

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.

Contents, Illustrations, Maps, Sketch Maps and Diagrams, Preface, and List of Events (pages i - xx )
Chapter 1 – The Final Phase Begins (pages 1 - 30 )
Chapter 2 – Plans and Problems (pages 31 - 54 )
Chapter 3 – The General, the Parliament and the Ministers (pages 55 - 72 )
Chapter 4 – Leaders and Men (pages 73 - 88 )
Chapter 5 – The Bougainville Campaign Takes Shape (pages 89 - 115 )
Chapter 6 – The Offensive Opens (pages 116 - 140 )
Chapter 7 – To Slater's Knoll and Soraken (pages 141 - 176 )
Chapter 8 – Across the Hari: Porton Plantation (pages 177 - 216 )
Chapter 9 – The Floods and the Cease Fire (pages 217 - 240 )
Chapter 10 – Operations on New Britain (pages 241 - 270 )
Chapter 11 – Taking Over at Aitape (pages 271 - 281 )
Chapter 12 – Across the Danmap (pages 282 - 295 )
Chapter 13 – To Dagua: and Across the Amuk River (pages 296 - 329 )
Chapter 14 – Maprik and Wewak Taken (pages 330 - 358 )
Chapter 15 – Tazaki and Shiburangu (pages 359 - 387 )
Chapter 16 – Planning for Borneo – April to June 1945 (pages 388 - 405 )
Chapter 17 – Tarakan: Town and Airfield Taken (pages 406 - 426 )
Chapter 18 – Tarakan: the Garrison Destroyed (pages 427 - 452 )
Chapter 19 – Oboe Six Opens (pages 453 - 471 )
Chapter 20 – Securing British Borneo (pages 472 - 501 )
Chapter 21 – The Seizure of Balikpapan (pages 502 - 531 )
Chapter 22 – Balikpapan Area Secured (pages 532 - 547 )
Chapter 23 – After the Cease Fire (pages 548 - 583 )
Chapter 24 – Looking Back (pages 584 - 589 )
Appendix 1 – Command Problems, SWPA 1942–1945 (pages 590 - 599 )
Appendix 2 – Too Many Generals? (pages 600 - 607 )
appendix 3 – General Blamey's Appreciation of May 1945 (pages 608 - 616 )
Appendix 4 – The Allied Intelligence Bureau (pages 617 - 622 )
Appendix 5 – The Prison Break at Cowra, August 1944 (pages 623 - 624 )
Appendix 6 – Order of Battle of the 7th Division at Balikpapan (pages 625 - 632 )
Appendix 7 – Some Statistics (pages 633 - 636 )
Appendix 8 – Australian Army Unit Histories, War of 1939–45 (pages 637 - 638 )
Appendix 9 – Abbreviations (pages 639 - 640 )
Index (pages 641 - 667 )

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Second World War, 1939-1945