Ill, p.285.non-fictionEscape of Japanese prisoners of war held at Cowra, N.S.W., Australia.escaped prisoners of war - australia, japanese prisoners of war - australia

Index, bibliography, ill, p.313.non-fictionEscape of Japanese prisoners of war held at Cowra, N.S.W., Australia.escaped prisoners of war - australia, japanese prisoners of war - australia

Index, bibliography, notes, ill, p.688.non-fictionThe untold story of the Sandakan death marches of World War II. After the fall of Singapore, in February 1942, the Japanese conquerors rounded up tens of thousands of British and Australian soldiers and shipped them to prison camps scattered throughout Hirohito's newly won Empire. The fall of Britain's 'impregnable fortress' was the greatest humiliation in British military history, for which Churchill never forgave the Japanese. But nothing would surpass the wretched fate of some 2,700 British and Australian prisoners who were shipped to British North Borneo later that year. They landed in Sandakan, on the east coast of the island, after a 10-day voyage on a Japanese 'hell' ship, and were herded into a jungle camp some eight miles inland. Thus began the three-year ordeal of the Sandakan prisoners of war - a barely known story of unimaginable horror.world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war - sandakan, japan - prisons and prisoners of war

Index, bibliography, ill, p.360.When Singapore fell dramatically to the Japanese on 15 February 1942, hundreds of people scrambled to leave. Amongst the evacuees were 65 Australian nurses. They boarded a coastal freighter named the Vyner Brooke, which was sunk by the Japanese. From a group of 60 shipwreck survivors including 22 nurses, Vivian Bullwinkel was the only survivor. royal australian army nursing corps, vivian bullwinkel

Index, bibliography, notes,maps, ill, p.334.non-fictionIn 1939 Marsden Hordern's mother refused to sign the paper allowing her seventeen-year-old son to fight overseas with the Royal Australian Air Force. 'I did not rear you to be killed in an airplane,' she said. 'Join the navy.' He took her advice and in doing so determined his future. In small patrol boats, Fairmiles and a Harbour Defence Motor Launch, he patrolled the shores of Japanese-held territory, assisted beleaguered commandos in Timor, and was finally caught up in the drama of rounding up Japanese prisoners of war and guarding them in New Guinea.world war 1939-1945 - naval operations - australia, royal australian navy

Index, bibliography, ill, maps, p.275.non-fictionOn 7 March 1944 Tokyo announced that the Japanese invasion of British India had begun. By mid-month, the Japanese 31st Division had crossed the Chindwin River in northern Burma, advancing on a wide front towards Imphal and Kohima. In bitter jungle fighting from early April, the British Fourteenth Army under Field Marshal Slim held the Japanese assault on Kohima Ridge. By late June the Japanese were in headlong retreat. Kohima ranks for strategic importance with Alamein, Midway and Stalingrad. The increasing dominance of Allied airpower in the region in the aftermath of the battle was a major factor. kohima - siege - 1944, world war 1939-1945 - land operations - india

Ill, p.64.non-fictionPictorial and textual descriptions of the tanks of the Axis powersarmoured warfare - axis powers, tanks - history

Index, bib, ill, maps, p.163.non-fictionAustralian troops fighting against Japan in 1941 and 1942world war 1939-1945 - australian involvement, world war 1939-1945 - campaigns - pacific area

Index, bib, ill, maps, p.163.non-fictionAustralian troops fighting against Japan in 1941 and 1942world war 1939-1945 - australian involvement, world war 1939-1945 - campaigns - pacific area

Index, bib, ill, p.201.non-fictionThe story of Japan's preparation for war and its role in World War Ii until its surrender.world war 1939-1945 - japan - history, world war 1939-1945 - japan

Index, bib, ill, p.208.non-fictionAn account of the campaigns and battles between Japan and the Allied nations in the Pacific and Asia during World War II.world war 1939-1945 - campaigns - pacific area, japan - history - 1912-1945

Index, bib, ill, , maps, p.208.non-fictionDiscusses the strategy, battles, and major personalities involved in the recapture of the Philippine Islands during World War II.world war 1939-1945 - campaigns - pacific area, japan - history - 1912-1945

Index, bib, ill, , maps, p.208.non-fictionThe Guadalcanal campaign and the slow conquest of islands in the Pacific by U.S. forces during the last months of World War IIworld war 1939-1945 - campaigns - pacific area, japan - history - 1912-1945

Index, ill, maps, p.218non-fictionBetween the wars - Mediterranean campaign - Japanese threat - Malaya - New Guinea - Australia's role in the war - Australian armed services casualties.world war 1939-1945 - australian involvement, australia - history - 20th century

Index, bib, ill, p.171.non-fictionWhen the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the Army Air Forces had only 1,100 combat-ready planes. No one could have imagined then that within the next four years the AAF would become the mighty weapon commemorated in the paintings reproduced on the following pages, or that it would have to scope to engage in what its commander, General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, described as a "global mission." Nevertheless, by 1944 the AAF had grown into 16 separate air forces stationed around the world, and its 1,100 planes had grown to nearly 80,000. world war 1939-1945 - aerial operations - united states, united states air force - history - 1939-1945

Ill, p.109.On 19th February 1942, Australia came under air attack for the first time when Japanese forces mounted two air raids on Darwin. On that day, 242 Japanese aircraft attacked Darwin in an attempt to prevent the Allies from using it as a base. 235 people were killed in the two raids, and more than 400 were wounded, 30 aircraft were destroyed, nine ships were sunk in Darwin harbour and two outside, and many civil and military facilities in Darwin were damaged. This book provides a visual record of that time through photographs, some depicting the devastation of war brought to Northern Australia, while others capture how life was for so many during this time.world war 1939-1945 - darwin - history, darwin - bombimg - 1942

Index, notes, bib, ill, maps, p.272.non-fiction An account of the minelaying by 4 Squadrons of the RAAF that between April 1943 and July 1945 in coalition with the USN 7th Fleet mined virtually every important Japanese port in the Southwest Pacific and as far North as Wenzhou (Wenchow) this was a substantial contribution to the Allied victory in the Pacific in WW2.world war 1939-1945 - aerial operations - australia, world war 1939-1945 - mining operations

Ill, p.159.non-fictionA history of japanese suicide weapons and actionskamikaze attacks, world war 1939-1945 - aerial operations - japan

Ill, p.159.non-fictionThe Japanese victory in the Phillipines in 1941world war 1939-1945 - campaigns - phillipines, world war 1939-1945 - history

Ill, p.159.non-fictionThe initial wave of victories by japan in World War Twoworld war 1939-1945 - campaigns - pacific area, world war 1939-1945 - history

Ill, p.159.non-fictionThe battle of Midway, as a result of US forces sinking four Japanese aircraft carriers the tide of war changed in the Pacific world war 1939 – 1945 – campaigns – pacific, world war 1939-1945 - naval operations - united states

Ill, p.159.non-fictionThe surprise Japanese attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbour in 1941world war 1939 – 1945 – campaigns – pacific, world war 1939-1945 - causes

Ill, maps, p.159.non-fictionThe building of the Burma - Thailand Railway by allied prisoners of warworld war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war - japan, burma - thailand railway

Ill, maps, p.159.non-fictionThe invasion of Malaya and Singapore by Japan in 1941world war 1939-1945 - campaigns - malaya, world war 1939-1945 - campaigns - south west pacific

Bib, ill, maps, p.248.non-fictionA significant World War Two mutiny took place on the night of 8 May 1942 in a lonely atoll in the Indian Ocean in a setting of intrigue, rebellion and the blood and tears of war. Japanese naval forces were at the peak of their southward thrust." "While the battle of the Coral Sea raged, gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands off Australia's north-west coast attempted to arrest their British commanding officer and compel him to surrender to the Japanese. One soldier was killed and another wounded, but the mutiny failed and seven men were condemned to death. Ultimately three soldiers were hung, becoming the only Commonwealth troops to be executed for mutiny in World War Twomutiny, world war 1939-1945 - sri lanka

Ill, maps, p.556.fictionSet in the heart of Borneo's millennial magnificence, a rolling adventure unfolds from Churchill's War Cabinet Rooms to Japan's Imperial Palace as brutality rains down on a guileless people whose hopes for freedom come to focus on a man who fights to save them, his oilfields and the woman he loves.world war 1939-1945 - fiction, borneo - fiction

A green tin with a pictures of trees on the lid. The words 'Autumn Glory' are also written on the lid - 1. Series 1 - 12 'Life in other Lands.' A set of six photographs in each envelope. From pictures painted by E .S. Hardy. The All-British Picture Company Ltd., The Sunday School Union, 57/59 Ludgate Hill. London, E.C.4. 2. One envelope containing beautiful coloured reproductions of the paintings by E. Stuart Hardy. Titled 'Early Saints of History.' A.B. Shaw & Co., Ltd. 3, Creed Lane, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C.4. 3. Four black and white postcard size photographs of the process of making Guinness in a plain envelope.place, tin, lydia chancellor collection, collection, tin, photograph, photo, photos, photographs, guinness manufacturing, history, early saints of history, saints, st. columba, st. patrick, caedmon, st. augustine, st. benedict, st. francis, life in other lands, china, japan, africa, eskimos, inuits, south seas, india, geography, person, people, e. s. hardy, art, artwork, painting, place, societies

Index, bib, ill, map, p.234.non-fictionIn June 1950, No 77 squadron RAAF was in Japan and packing up to go home when North Korea invaded South Korea. Instead of going home to Australia, they found themselves with their mustang fighters in Korea as part of the UN forces opposing the rampaging North Koreans who occupied almost the whole peninsular within 8 weeks of the start of the invasion. The squadron played a major role in halting the invasion and driving the Koreans back almost to the Chinese border. Then the Chinese, equipped with their MIG 21 jet fighters, entered the war. The hopelessly outclassed mustangs were quickly replaced by meteor jet fighters to again play a major role in resisting the invasion forces. The squadron lost over 20 pilots over the course of the war, but succeeded in shooting down a number of MIG fighters and offering ground support to the UN forces. This is an action packed account of the men of that squadron.korean war - aerial combat, korean war 1950-1953 - australian involvement

Index, ill, p.331.During World War II, the U.S. Navy's submarine service suffered the highest percentage of casualties of any branch of the American armed forces. One in five submariners was lost. But despite the odds, these underwater warriors accounted for almost sixty percent of Japanese shipping losses and were a major factor in winning the war.submarine warfare - world war ii, world war 1939-1945 - naval operations - united states

Index, ill, maps, p.198.A 25 year old Australian, James Boyle, was one of thousands of prisoners of war who worked in inhuman conditions to build the Thailand/Burma railway. He was determined to record his experiences and thos of his mates - at the limits of human endurance.japan - prisons and prisoners of war, burma - thailand railway