Episodes & Studies Volume 1

Contents

• Guns Against Tanks : L Troop, 33rd Battery, 7th New Zealand Anti-Tank Regiment in Libya, 23 November 1941 — by E. H. Smith
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  • • MOVING INTO LIBYA
    • IN POSITION
    • THE ATTACK BEGINS
    • REPLENISHING THE AMMUNITION
    • THE WITHDRAWAL
  • • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
    • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    • [backmatter]
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• Achilles at the River Plate — by S. D. Waters
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    • [titlepage]
    • [editorpage]
    • [untitled]
  • • ON PATROL
    • THE MOVEMENTS OF THE GRAF SPEE
    • THE BATTLE BEGINS
    • THE GRAF SPEE RETIRES WESTWARD
    • ON BOARD THE ACHILLES
    • SHADOWING THE ENEMY
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    • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    • [backmatter]
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• Women at War — by D. O. W. Hall
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  • • WOMEN IN THE SERVICES
    • THE WRENS
    • WRENS AT WORK
    • THE WOMEN'S AUXILIARY ARMY CORPS
    • VOLUNTARY AIDS
    • THE W.A.A.C. IN NEW ZEALAND
    • THE WOMEN'S AUXILIARY AIR FORCE
    • WOMEN AND THE WAR
  • • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    • [backmatter]
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• The Assault on Rabaul : Operations by the Royal New Zealand Air Force December 1943 — May 1944 — by J. M. S. Ross
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  • • FIGHTER SQUADRONS
    • PROTECTING THE BOMBERS
    • BOMBER RECONNAISSANCE OPERATIONS
    • FIGHTER BOMBERS
  • • APPENDIX
    • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
    • Acknowledgments
    • [backmatter]
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• Long Range Desert Group in Libya, 1940–41 — by R. L. Kay
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    • [titlepage]
    • [editorpage]
    • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • • FORMATION OF LONG RANGE PATROLS
      • [section]
      • Across the Sand Sea
    • RAIDS IN THE FEZZAN
      • [section]
      • Ambush at Gebel Sherif
    • OCCUPATION OF THE SOUTHERN OASES
    • IN SUPPORT OF THE EIGHTH ARMY
  • • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
    • [backmatter]
• Prisoners of Japan — by D. O. W. Hall
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  • • PRISONERS OF JAPAN
    • The Incalculable Japanese
    • After Capture
    • Singapore
    • The Netherlands East Indies
    • The Burma-Thailand Railway
    • Hong Kong
    • The Islands of Japan
    • Aircrew Prisoners
    • Civilian Internees
    • Food and Health
    • Release
    • The Gain and the Loss
  • • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    • [backmatter]
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• Troopships — by S. P. Llewellyn
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    • [titlepage]
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  • • The First Voyage
    • At the Fleet Club
    • Food and Accommodation
    • Recreation, Training, Fatigues, Health
    • War and Rumours of War
    • Shore Leave
    • The Mediterranean: Greece
    • The Mediterranean: Italy
    • Pacific Voyages
    • The Troopship Track
    • Homeward Bound
  • • Acknowledgments
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• Prisoners of Germany — by D. O. W. Hall
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    • Foreword
  • • In German Hands in Greece and Crete
    • Stalags
    • Kommandos
    • Non-Commissioned Officers' Camp
    • Oflags
    • The Red Cross Provides
    • Discipline
    • Rackets and Resistance
    • Education, Recreation, and Welfare
    • The Marches
    • Liberation
    • The Germans
  • • Acknowledgments
    • [backmatter]
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• Prisoners of Italy — by D. O. W. Hall
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    • [titlepage]
    • [editorpage]
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  • • After Capture
    • Across the Mediterranean
    • Transit Camps
    • Gruppignano
    • Officers' Camps
    • Other Camps in Italy
    • Working Camps
    • Life in Camp
    • Guards and Prisoners
    • Medical Care
    • Prisoners' Welfare
    • The Italian Armistice
  • • Acknowledgments
    • [backmatter]
    • [backmatter]
• German Raiders in the Pacific — by S. D. Waters
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    • [titlepage]
    • [editorpage]
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  • • GERMAN RAIDERS IN THE PACIFIC
    • The Sinking of the Turakina
    • The Komet Enters the Pacific
    • Holmwood and Rangitane Sunk
    • Operations of the Pinguin
    • Harbour Entrances Mined
    • Raiders' Long Cruises End
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    • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• Wounded in Battle — by J. B. McKinney
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  • • Diary of a Corporal in 26 NZ Battalion:
    • Stretcher-Bearers
    • Regimental Aid Post
    • Advanced Dressing Station
    • Main Dressing Station
    • Casualty Clearing Station
    • General Hospital
    • Hospital Ship
  • • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    • [backmatter]
    • [backmatter]
• Long Range Desert Group in the Mediterranean — by R. L. Kay
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    • [frontispiece]
    • [titlepage]
    • [editorpage]
    • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • • RAIDS BEHIND THE ENEMY LINES
      • [section]
      • The Road Watch
    • THE BARCE RAID
    • THE EIGHTH ARMY ADVANCE
      • [section]
      • Reconnaissance in Tunisia
    • INVASION OF THE DODECANESE ISLANDS
      • [section]
      • Patrols in Outlying Islands
      • The Assault on Levita
      • The Battle of Leros
  • • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
    • [backmatter]

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Title: Episodes & Studies Volume 1

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1948, Wellington

Digitisation Funded By: Mary Weston

Part of: The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945

This text is the subject of: ‘Something of Them Is Here Recorded’: Official History in New Zealand

Keywords: New Zealand World War II History

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