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PREFACE V
RELATIONS WITH JAPAN, JUNE–OCTOBER 1940 1
RELATIONS WITH JAPAN AND THAILAND, 1941 32
OUTBREAK OF WAR: JAPAN AND THAILAND 79
COMMAND IN THE PACIFIC: ABDA AND ANZAC AREAS 110
EXTENSION OF ANZAC AREA 159
DIVISION OF STRATEGIC RESPONSIBILITY BETWEEN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 169
DEFENCE OF NEW ZEALAND 206
DEFENCE OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC 267
RELIEF OF NEW ZEALAND GARRISONS IN FIJI AND TONGA 318
FANNING ISLAND 334
FORMATION AND EMPLOYMENT OF 3RD NEW ZEALAND DIVISION 349
WITHDRAWAL OF 2ND NZEF IP 430
PROPOSALS FOR PARTICIPATION IN OPERATIONS AGAINST JAPAN 458
THE DEFEAT OF JAPAN 497
PARTICIPATION IN OCCUPATION OF JAPAN 510
APPENDICES
I: Appreciation of Probable Japanese Policy in the Far East, November 1939 531
II: Memorandum on Australian and New Zealand Naval Defence, November 1939 535
III: Note of Hon. P. Fraser's Views, November 1939 538
IV: Appreciation by the United Kingdom Chiefs of Staff on the Situation in the Far East, August 1940 540
V: Major-General H. E. Barrowclough's Charter as GOC 2nd NZEF in Pacific 553

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Title: Documents Relating to New Zealand’s Participation in the Second World War 1939―45: Volume III

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1963, 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

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