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- 18 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
- 19 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
- CHAPTER 4 — The Western Desert
- CHAPTER 5 — Baggush Box
- CHAPTER 6 — Helwan
- CHAPTER 8 — Campaign in Greece
- CHAPTER 9 — Reorganisation on Crete
- CHAPTER 10 — Airborne Invasion
- CHAPTER 11 — Back to Egypt
- CHAPTER 12 — The Division in the Desert
- CHAPTER 13 — Baggush to Syria
- CHAPTER 14 — Back to the Western Desert
- CHAPTER 23 — Faenza to Trieste
- 20 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
- 21 Battalion
- 22 Battalion
- 23 Battalion
- 24 Battalion
- 25 Battalion
- 26 Battalion
- 27 (Machine Gun) Battalion
- CHAPTER 2 — Egypt
- CHAPTER 3 — The First Encounter
- CHAPTER 5 — Crete
- CHAPTER 7 — Sidi Azeiz and Gazala
- CHAPTER 10 — Ruweisat Ridge
- CHAPTER 12 — The New Zealand Box
- CHAPTER 14 — The Pursuit
- CHAPTER 17 — The Sangro River
- CHAPTER 18 — Orsogna
- CHAPTER 20 — Cardito, Terelle, Balsorano
- CHAPTER 23 — Machine-gunners into Riflemen
- CHAPTER 25 — The End of the War
- 28 (Maori) Battalion
- 2nd New Zealand Divisional Artillery
- CHAPTER 13 — The Surveyors
- The Third Echelon
- Maadi and the Western Desert
- Armed and Unarmed Parties
- The Airborne Assault on 5 Brigade
- The Second Day at Maleme
- The Counter-attack on the Airfield Fails
- Retreat from Galatas
- New Equipment but No Medium Guns
- Preparing for Desert Operations
- Field and Anti-Tank Batteries are Reorganised
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- The Blockhouse
- The First Attack on Sidi Rezegh
- Panzers Overwhelm Most of 6 Brigade
- The Gazala Battle
- The Minqar Qaim Position
- The Attack on Ruweisat
- Stalemate in August
- The Battle of Alam Halfa
- The Enemy Gun Line Is Not Broken
- Planning supercharge
- The Pursuit
- The Second Left Hook: To Nofilia
- Lobs and Others on the Coast Route
- Moving on towards Tripoli
- The Bofors Gunners Defend Tripoli Harbour
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- Air Attacks
- The Tebaga Gap
- New Zealand Corps Reinforced
- The Advance to Gabes
- Operations around Djebibina
- Return to Maadi
- The Coriano Ridge
- 4th and 6th Reserve Mechanical Transport Companies
- Alam Halfa and Alamein
- Bardia to Enfidaville
- Glossary
- Air Power
- The Enemy Retirement into the Agheila Position
- Across the Rift
- After Nofilia
- The Terrain
- Plans for Operation fire-eater
- 21 January—the Plains of Tripoli
- Other Activities
- Lull before the Storm
- NZ Corps—23 March
- Preparations on 25 March
- Orders for supercharge
- Artillery
- Brigade Operation Orders
- Other Activities
- OFFICIAL
- Battle for Egypt
- Chaplains
- Crete
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- III: Defensive Decisions
- IV: General Freyberg Takes Command
- V: Preparations of 2 NZ Division: 30 April–19 May
- VI: German Preparations
- I: Maleme and 22 Battalion
- III: Canea-Galatas Sector
- I: The Maleme Sector
- I: The Counter-attack at Maleme
- IV: Retimo, Heraklion, and Creforce
- I: The Withdrawal of 5 Brigade
- III: Retimo, Heraklion, and Creforce
- II: Other Fronts and Creforce
- IV: Other Fronts and Creforce
- II: Behind 42nd Street
- I: The Ninth Day: 28 May
- III: The Eleventh Day: 30 May
- IV: The Twelfth Day: 31 May
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- Appendix IV — SUMMARY OF STRENGTHS OF ALL BRITISH AND GREEK FORCES IN CRETE, 20 MAY 1941*
- Index
- Divisional Cavalry
- CHAPTER 2 — Maadi - Garawla - Baggush - Daba
- CHAPTER 5 — Greece
- CHAPTER 7 — Reorganisation and Back to the Desert
- CHAPTER 8 — The ‘Crusader’ Campaign
- CHAPTER 9 — The Capture of Bardia
- CHAPTER 13 — The Battle of Alam Halfa
- CHAPTER 14 — The Battle of Alamein
- CHAPTER 17 — Tunisia
- CHAPTER 25 — The Last Days
- Index
- Divisional Signals
- Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume I
- Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume II
- Index
- Crete
- 111 — General Freyberg to the Prime Minister
- 138 — General Freyberg to the Minister of Defence
- 160 — General Freyberg to the Minister of Defence
- 172 — General Freyberg to the Minister of Defence
- 174 — General Freyberg to the Minister of Defence
- 204 — General Freyberg to the Prime Minister
- Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume III
- Episodes & Studies Volume 1
- Episodes & Studies Volume 2
- WEST AFRICA and No. 490 (NZ) SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
- ATTACKS ON THE GERMAN FLEET
- THE FORMATION OF No. 75 (NZ) SQUADRON
- THE FALL OF FRANCE
- EARLY STRATEGIC BOMBING
- THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
- THE CONTRIBUTION
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
- THE PHASES OF THE BATTLE
- THE SWITCH TO LONDON
- IN RETROSPECT
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
- [editorpage]
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
- Nos. 243 and 488 Squadrons
- First Combat Success and Casualty
- No. 1 Aerodrome Construction Squadron
- Evacuation of Singapore
- No. 67 Fighter Squadron
- Fighter Operations
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
- Escapes in Greece
- The Luft Three Tunnel
- Italy Volume II : From Cassino to Trieste
- Journey Towards Christmas
- Medical Units of 2 NZEF in Middle East and Italy
- New Zealand Engineers, Middle East
- CHAPTER 4 — The Campaign in Greece
- CHAPTER 5 — The Campaign in Crete
- CHAPTER 7 — The Crusader Campaign
- CHAPTER 9 — The Western Desert Railway
- CHAPTER 10 — Neap Tide in Egypt
- CHAPTER 12 — The Turn of the Tide
- CHAPTER 13 — High Tide in Tripolitania
- CHAPTER 23 — To Ronchi
- 11 Forestry Company
- [section]
- 5 Field Park Company
- 18 Army Troops Company
- The Forestry Group
- SURVEY AND RAILWAY OPERATING AND CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES
- [section]
- The Army Troops Companies
- 21 Mechanical Equipment Company
- [section]
- New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Vol. I)
- Per ardua ad astra
- Contents
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1 — The Royal Air Force and Early New Zealand Representation
- CHAPTER 2 — Early Operations from Britain and France
- CHAPTER 3 — Meeting the German Attack
- CHAPTER 4 — The Battle of Britain
- CHAPTER 5 — Bombing and Reconnaissance, 1940
- CHAPTER 6 — Defeating the Night Raider
- CHAPTER 7 — Air War at Sea
- CHAPTER 8 — Early Bomber Offensive
- CHAPTER 9 — The Part of No. 75 Squadron
- CHAPTER 10 — Increasing New Zealand Participation— Formation of Nos. 485,488, and 489 Squadrons
- CHAPTER 11 — Day Fighters, 1941
- CHAPTER 12 — Heavier Bombing Raids—Advent of No. 487 Squadron
- CHAPTER 13 — Pathfinders and Raids on Italy
- CHAPTER 14 — Battle of the Atlantic, 1942
- CHAPTER 15 — Attacking Enemy Ships With Mine, Bomb and Torpedo
- CHAPTER 16 — Day Fighters During 1942
- CHAPTER 17 — Night Fighters, 1942
- Appendix I — Principal Events of the Second World War 1939–42
- Appendix II — A Flight to italy in 1940
- Appendix III — STRENGHTHS AND CASUALTIES
- Index
- New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Vol. II)
- Contents
- CHAPTER 1 — Introduction
- CHAPTER 2 — Aircraft against U-boat
- CHAPTER 3 — Bomber Command and the Battle of the Ruhr
- CHAPTER 4 — Longer-range Attacks
- CHAPTER 5 — With Mine, Bomb, and Torpedo
- CHAPTER 6 — Daylight Raids by the Light Bombers
- CHAPTER 7 — Day-Fighters and Fighter-bombers
- CHAPTER 8 — Night Fighters
- CHAPTER 9 — Prelude to Invasion
- CHAPTER 10 — Normandy
- CHAPTER 11 — Flying Bombs and Rockets
- CHAPTER 12 — Forward to the Rhine
- CHAPTER 13 — Transport and Special Duties
- CHAPTER 14 — Bomber Command and the Battle of Germany
- CHAPTER 15 — Coastal Command Patrols
- CHAPTER 16 — The Last Phase
- CHAPTER 17 — Mission Completed
- Appendix I — PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR — 1943–45
- Appendix IV — Principal British and German Operational Aircraft — (1943–45)
- Bibliography
- Index
- [section]
- Royal Air Force
- New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force — (RNZAF attached and New Zealanders in RAF)
- New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Volume III)
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- CHAPTER 1 — Prelude to War
- CHAPTER 2 — Early Operations over Many Fronts
- CHAPTER 3 — Western Desert—The Second Year
- CHAPTER 4 — Western Desert—The Third Year
- CHAPTER 5 — Algeria and Tunisia
- CHAPTER 6 — Malta
- CHAPTER 7 — Sicily
- CHAPTER 8 — Italy
- CHAPTER 9 — Beyond the Italian Battlefront
- CHAPTER 10 — The End In Italy
- CHAPTER 11 — Malaya, Sumatra, and Java
- CHAPTER 12 — The Retreat from Burma
- CHAPTER 13 — Fighting Back from India
- CHAPTER 14 — Air Superiority and the Arakan Battle
- CHAPTER 15 — Operation thursday and the Victory at — Imphal
- CHAPTER 16 — Back to Rangoon—the Last Phase
- Appendix I — PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND — MEDITERRANEAN CAMPAIGNS 1940–45
- Appendix II — CHRONOLOGY OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN — SOUTH-EAST ASIA
- Appendix III — PRINCIPAL OPERATIONAL AIRCRAFT OF ROYAL — AIR FORCE IN MIDDLE EAST AND SOUTH-EAST — ASIA
- Index
- New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy
- Index of Names
- Field Ambulance Equipment and Training
- 1 NZ Convalescent Depot
- General Military Plan of the Campaign
- 4 Field Ambulance
- The RMOs of 5 Brigade—Treatment and Evacuation of Wounded
- First Evacuation from Beach
- Review of Work at Helwan
- The ADS with 6 Brigade
- Captured Medical Centre at ‘Whistling Wadi’
- Air Evacuation
- Summer at Alamein
- The Enemy Attacks
- General Situation – The Pursuit to the Frontier
- The Medical Units
- The Main Assault
- Medical Units in Pursuit
- Strength of Units—Other Ranks
- Petrol Company
- Political and External Affairs
- Prisoners of War
- CHAPTER 11 — The Reception of Liberated Prisoners in the United Kingdom and Their Repatriation
- I: Prisoners of War captured in Europe in 1940
- II: The Crete Campaign—Prisoners in Greece and Germany
- II: Prisoners in Germany
- I: Japanese Victories
- I: The North African Campaigns of 1942–43—Prisoners in Italian Hands
- III: Prisoners of War in Germany
- I: Events preceding and immediately following the Italian Armistice
- IV: New Zealanders captured in the Italian and Aegean Campaigns
- I: The Events of 1944 and German Camps from late 1943 onwards
- II: The War in Italy in 1944 and Escapes to Allied Lines
- I: Movements of Prisoners and Liberation in Germany
- Problems of 2 NZEF
- Royal New Zealand Air Force
- PRIVATE ENTERPRISE — THE NEW ZEALAND — FLYING SCHOOL
- THE CANTERBURY AVIATION COMPANY
- [section]
- THE AIR BOARD
- AVIATION
- FLYING SCHOOLS
- FORMATION OF NEW ZEALAND AIR FORCE
- DEVELOPMENT OF PERMANENT AIR FORCE
- EXERCISES AND OPERATIONS, 1929–36
- ORGANISATION OF THE TERRITORIAL AIR FORCE, 1930
- EXPANSION OF THE RNZAF
- [section]
- FORMATION OF THE RNZAF: THE AIR DEPARTMENT
- EXPANSION PROGRAMMES, 1937–39
- PACIFIC DEFENCE CONFERENCE
- DEVELOPMENT OF THE TERRITORIAL AIR FORCE
- RNZAF AT OUTBREAK OF WAR
- [section]
- FORMATION OF SCHOOLS
- AIRCREW TRAINING
- [section]
- EFFECT OF PACIFIC WAR
- OUTPUT OF PILOTS TO THE ROYAL AIR FORCE
- REPATRIATION AND EMPLOYMENT OF TRAINEES FROM CANADA
- OPERATIONAL RESOURCES OF THE RNZAF AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR
- DEFENCE OF FIJI
- FORMATION OF NEW GENERAL RECONNAISSANCE SQUADRONS
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- EQUIPMENT DIFFICULTIES
- OUTBREAK OF WAR WITH JAPAN
- NO. 488 SQUADRON'S COMBATS
- JAVA
- EVACUATION
- REQUESTS TO BRITAIN FOR REINFORCEMENTS
- COMMUNICATIONS
- NEGOTIATIONS TO OBTAIN EQUIPMENT
- FORMATION OF NO. 40 (TRANSPORT) SQUADRON
- MOVE OF NO. 15 SQUADRON TO GUADALCANAL
- FIGHTER SWEEPS OVER RABAUL
- No. 6 FLYING BOAT SQUADRON
- despatch of no.52 radar unit to guadalcanal
- bomber-reconnaissance operations, february—june
- formation of new zealand air task force
- sources of manpower, 1943–44
- [section]
- bomber-reconnaissance operations from green island
- the post-war air force
- Glossary
- no. 2 bomber reconnaissance squadron
- no. 488 fighter squadron
- Supply Company
- The Home Front Volume I
- The Home Front Volume II
- The New Zealand Dental Services
- The Pacific
- The Relief of Tobruk
- CHAPTER 2 — Lull in the Desert War
- CHAPTER 3 — Preparing for Action
- CHAPTER 6 — From Baggush to the Libyan Frontier
- CHAPTER 7 — A disastrous Beginning
- CHAPTER 8 — The Frontier Operations Begin
- CHAPTER 12 — The Matruh Stakes
- CHAPTER 13 — The Capture of the Blockhouse
- CHAPTER 15 — Joining Hands with the Tobruk Garrison
- CHAPTER 17 — Rommel's ‘Evil Dream’
- CHAPTER 18 — Two Attacks on Capuzzo
- CHAPTER 19 — The Loss of 5 Brigade Headquarters
- CHAPTER 20 — Rommel Returns to the Tobruk Front
- CHAPTER 21 — Increasing Pressure on 6 Brigade
- CHAPTER 23 — Sidi Rezegh is Lost
- CHAPTER 24 — Belhamed and Zaafran
- CHAPTER 25 — Plodding on Westwards
- CHAPTER 26 — Gazala and Beyond
- Glossary
- Index
- The Royal New Zealand Navy
- To Greece
- War Surgery and Medicine


