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‘These preliminary narratives are based on the divisional, brigade, and unit war diaries of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force, supplemented by miscellaneous reports, records of interviews, eyewitness accounts, signal messages, strength states, sketches, citations, and unofficial material yielded by correspondence and interviews with participants. The narratives also contain the comments of those who read them in New Zealand or the United Kingdom.

  • GOC's Papers: a diary kept by Lieutenant-General Freyberg (or for him by his Personal Assistant), supplemented by relevant papers and reports grouped in files.

    • File 26, General (Employment of Division).

    • File 27, Turning El Agheila Position.

    • File 28, Nofilia to Tripoli.

    • File 29, Rommel's Attack at Medenine.

    • File 30, The Mareth Operations.

    • File 31, Akarit to Enfidaville.

    • File 32, General (Administration, Sicily and Italy).

    • File 39, Manpower, Reinforcements, the Furlough Scheme.

    • File 40, Notes for History of Left Hook.

    • File 41, Conference in Tripoli, Feb 1943.

    • File 42, Cables to Prime Minister (policy, administration, and reports).

    • File 45, GOC's Diary, Part III, 3/9/42–3/9/43.

  • Policy files, Army Headquarters, Wellington.

  • Policy files, Prime Minister's Department, Wellington.

  • Operations Pugilist and Supercharge II, a Study of Command, unpublished thesis by I. McL. Wards.

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Title: Bardia to Enfidaville

Author: Stevens, Major-General W. G.

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1962, 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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