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List of Maps

	Facing page
Battle of the River Plate, 13 December 1939	49
Track chart of German raider Orion	83
Track chart of German raider Komet	101
South-West Pacific Ocean	151
South-East Asia and East Indies Archipelago	249
Solomon Islands	283
The War against Japan: Allied Operations in the Pacific	365
In text
	Page
South America, showing ports visited by the Achilles	20
Leander's cruise in Indian Ocean	84
Minefield off Lyttelton Harbour	156
Minefield off Wellington Harbour	157
New Zealand, showing principal ports and headlands	164
Cruises of Japanese submarines I–25 and I–21	213
Battle for Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands, October 1944	346
Japan and outlying Islands	374

The occupations given in the biographical footnotes are those on enlistment.

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