Episodes & Studies Volume 2

Contents

• Aircraft against U-Boat — by Wing Commander H. L. Thompson
  • • [covers]
    • [frontispiece]
    • [title page]
    • [editorpage]
  • • BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC
    • COVERING THE NORTH AFRICAN LANDINGS
    • NORTH ATLANTIC PATROLS
    • HUNTING U-BOATS IN THE BAY OF BISCAY
    • WEST AFRICA and No. 490 (NZ) SQUADRON
  • • [backmatter]
    • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
• Early Operations with Bomber Command — by B. G. Clare
  • • [covers]
    • [frontispiece]
    • [title page]
    • [editorpage]
    • Early Operations with Bomber Command
  • • ATTACKS ON THE GERMAN FLEET
    • THE ‘PHONY’ WAR
    • THE FORMATION OF No. 75 (NZ) SQUADRON
    • THE CAMPAIGN IN NORWAY
    • THE FALL OF FRANCE
    • EARLY STRATEGIC BOMBING
    • THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
    • THE CONTRIBUTION
  • • [backmatter]
    • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
    • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    • [backmatter]
• New Zealanders in the Battle of Britain — by N. W. Faircloth
  • • [covers]
    • [frontispiece]
    • [title page]
    • [editorpage]
    • [acknowledgment]
  • • PROLOGUE
    • THE STAGE IS SET
    • THE PHASES OF THE BATTLE
    • THE ALL-OUT BLOW AGAINST FIGHTER COMMAND
    • THE GREATEST DAY—15 AUGUST 1940
    • THE ATTACK ON THE AIRFIELDS
    • THE SWITCH TO LONDON
    • THE EBB OF BATTLE
    • IN RETROSPECT
  • • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
    • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    • [backmatter]
• Leander — by S. D. Waters
  • • [covers]
    • [frontispiece]
    • [title page]
    • [editorpage]
  • • From Tropics to Sub-Antarctic
    • Leander on Foreign Service
    • Protection of Red Sea Convoys
    • Hunting Enemy Raiders
    • Escorting South Pacific Convoys
    • Night Action off Kolombangara
    • Leander Torpedoed
    • ‘Qui Patitur Vincit’
    • Return to Harbour
  • • RECORD OF HMS LEANDER
      • First Leander
      • Second Leander
      • Third Leander
      • Fourth Leander
      • Fifth Leander
      • Crest and Motto
    • Biographical Notes
    • Acknowledgments
    • [backmatter]
    • [backmatter]
• Malta Airmen — by J. A. Whelan
  • • [covers]
    • [frontispiece]
    • [title page]
    • [editorpage]
  • • A MILITARY LIABILITY
    • THE FLYING-BOAT UNION
    • CUTTING THE AXIS SUPPLY LINES
    • SPITFIRES OVER MALTA
    • THE TORPEDO-BOMBERS ATTACK
    • OVER TO THE OFFENSIVE
  • • [backmatter]
    • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
    • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• Takrouna — by I. McL. Wards
  • • [covers]
    • [frontispiece]
    • [title page]
    • [editorpage]
  • • [chapter]
    • ATTACK
      • [section]
      • 23 Battalion captures Cherchir
    • INITIAL ASSAULT ON TAKROUNA
      • [section]
      • Reorganisation
      • The Struggle Continues on Takrouna
    • CONCLUSION
  • • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
    • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    • [backmatter]
    • [backmatter]
• Coastwatchers — by David Oswald William Hall
  • • [covers]
    • [frontispiece]
    • [title page]
    • [editorpage]
    • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • • Coastwatching
    • Pacific Coastwatching
    • The Manning of the Stations
    • Sighting Reports
    • Gilbert and Ellice Islands
    • The Southern Gilberts Occupied
    • The Pan Expedition
    • Coastwatchers in the Solomons
    • The Cape Expedition
    • The Record of the Service
• The Royal New Zealand Air Force in South-East Asia 1941–42 — by H. R. Dean
  • • [covers]
    • [frontispiece]
    • [title page]
    • [editorpage]
  • • Opposing the Japanese Landings
      • [section]
      • No. 62 (Bomber) Squadron
    • Fighter Operations
      • Nos. 243 and 488 Squadrons
      • First Combat Success and Casualty
    • Building the Airfields
      • No. 1 Aerodrome Construction Squadron
      • Evacuation of Singapore
    • Operations Over Burma
      • No. 67 Fighter Squadron
      • No. 113 Bomber Squadron
      • Fighter Operations
  • • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
    • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    • [backmatter]
    • [backmatter]
• ‘The Other Side of the Hill’
  • • [covers]
    • [frontispiece]
    • [title page]
    • [editorpage]
    • Acknowledgments
  • • I: Panzer Attack in Greece — by I. McL. Wards
    • II: Galatas — by Murphy, W. E.
    • III: Ruweisat Ridge — by Walker, Ronald
    • IV: The ‘Left Hook’ at El Agheila — by Kay, Robin
    • V: Panzer Grenadiers in the Senio Bridgehead — by A. G. Protheroe
• Special Service in Greece — by M. B. McGlynn
  • • [covers]
    • [frontispiece]
    • [title page]
    • [editorpage]
  • • GORGOPOTAMOS VIADUCT
      • [section]
      • Parachute Landing
      • Reconnaissance
      • Assembly Point and Attack
      • British Mission to the Greek Guerrillas
    • ASOPOS VIADUCT
      • [section]
      • Under the Viaduct
  • • Appendix I — Stott and Morton
      • [section]
      • Operation in Borneo
    • Appendix II
    • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
    • [backmatter]
    • SOURCES
    • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    • [backmatter]
• Point 175 — by Murphy, W. E.
  • • [covers]
    • [frontispiece]
    • [title page]
    • [editorpage]
  • Point 175
  • • SOURCES
    • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    • [backmatter]
    • [backmatter]
• Escapes — by David Oswald William Hall
  • • [covers]
    • [frontispiece]
    • [title page]
    • [editorpage]
    • Acknowledgments
  • • To Escape
    • Escape Organisation
    • Escape Equipment
    • Outside Help
    • Types of Escape
    • Escapes in Crete
    • Escapes in Greece
    • The Italian Armistice
    • Escapers in Switzerland
    • Escapes in Germany
    • The Luft Three Tunnel
    • Escapers in Yugoslavia
    • Escapes to China
    • Reprisals and Punishments
  • [backmatter]

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Title: Episodes & Studies Volume 2

Digitisation Funded By: Mary Weston

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1950, Wellington

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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