Volume II – Royal Australian Navy, 1942–1945 (1st edition, 1968)

"Royal Australian Navy 1939-1942", first of the two naval volumes in the Australian Official History of the 1939-1945 War, told of Australia's naval policy, and of the part played by her navy in the war in the Pacific, the Atlantic, and the Indian Oceans, and in the Mediterranean, from the outbreak of war until March 1942. This volume continues the story, and chronicles the activities of ships and men of the Royal Australian Navy alongside those of their British and American Allies, once again in near and distant seas. These activities are seen against the background of the political and military policies of which the RAN was one of the naval instruments, and which ultimately decided the victory with which this story closes.

• Contents, Illustrations, Maps, Sketch Maps, Preface, and Chronology (pages i - xviii )
• Chapter 1 – Shaping Japan's Perimeter (pages 1 - 24 )
• Chapter 2 – Japan's First Check – Coral Sea (pages 25 - 57 )
• Chapter 3 – Australia's Coast Raided – Her Flanks Strengthened (pages 58 - 99 )
• Chapter 4 – Australia – June 1942 (pages 100 - 113 )
• Chapter 5 – Guadalcanal – Pacific Hinge–pin (pages 114 - 157 )
• Chapter 6 – Sparring for the North (pages 158 - 183 )
• Chapter 7 – On Australia's Ocean Communications (pages 184 - 210 )
• Chapter 8 – South–West Pacific – Prelude to Flood Tide (pages 211 - 249 )
• Chapter 9 – The Supply Lines Battle (pages 250 - 293 )
• Chapter 10 – Indian Ocean – Mediterranean Interlude (pages 294 - 316 )
• Chapter 11 – The Mission of Krait (pages 317 - 325 )
• Chapter 12 – Allied Offensives Gather Momentum (pages 326 - 361 )
• Chapter 13 – Pacific Drive – Indian Ocean Interlude (pages 362 - 409 )
• Chapter 14 – The Assault Armadas Strike (pages 410 - 450 )
• Chapter 15 – Strategy for Victory (pages 451 - 477 )
• Chapter 16 – Preface to the Philippines (pages 478 - 499 )
• Chapter 17 – Leyte (pages 500 - 540 )
• Chapter 18 – Operation Rimau (pages 541 - 546 )
• Chapter 19 – Submarine's Swansong (pages 547 - 557 )
• Chapter 20 – The RAN in Burma (pages 558 - 574 )
• Chapter 21 – Lingayen Gulf (pages 575 - 593 )
• Chapter 22 – The British Pacific Fleet Joins In (pages 594 - 615 )
• Chapter 23 – Australians at Tarakan (pages 616 - 624 )
• Chapter 24 – “Mopping–up” New Guinea and the Solomons (pages 625 - 635 )
• Chapter 25 – RAN Survey Key to Brunei (pages 636 - 645 )
• Chapter 26 – Australia's Largest Amphibious Attack – Balikpapan (pages 646 - 658 )
• Chapter 27 – Final Milestones to Japan's Surrender (pages 659 - 675 )
• Chapter 28 – Surrender – and Aftermath (pages 676 - 701 )
• Chapter 29 – Epilogue (pages 702 - 705 )
• Appendix 1 – The Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (pages 706 - 707 )
• Appendix 2 – The Minesweepers (pages 708 - 709 )
• Appendix 3 – Peak Strengths – Ships and Personnel – and Casualties (pages 710 - 713 )
• Appendix 4 – The RANVR on Mine Disposal (pages 714 - 717 )
• Appendix 5 – Abbreviations (pages 718 - 720 )
• Index (pages 721 - 753 )