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Heading for the shore of Vella LavellaUnited States Army Signal Corps OfficialFrontispice
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8 Brigade Group onRangatira16
30 Battalion of 8 Brigade Group arrives in Fiji16
Petrol tank in Sealark Hill, Suva16
8 NZ Infantry Brigade defences on Fiji16
Vice-Admiral R. L. Ghormley arrives at Namaka Aerodrome, May 194216
Third Division manœuvres in the Kaimai RangesThe Weekly News16
Sappers in the Kaimai RangesThe Weekly News16
The Kiwi Club, Bourail BeachNZ Army Official48
Training in New CaledoniaNZ Army48
Review of 8 NZ Infantry Brigade, New CaledoniaNZ Army48
Base Ordnance Depot, BourailNZ Army48
30 Battalion headquarters, New CaledoniaNZ Army48
37 Battalion cookhouse ovens, Taom, New CaledoniaNZ Army48
The camp site of 22 Field Ambulance at TinippNZ Army48
Nurses' quarters, 4 NZ General Hospital, BoguenNZ Army48
Club at Base Training Depot in Tene Valley, New CaledoniaNZ Army80
Embarkation PracticeNZ Army80
The move to GuadalcanalNZ Army80
Boarding a Landing Craft (Mechanised), NoumeaNZ Army80
Third Division training exercise, Mele Beach, New HebridesNZ Army80
Gunners pulling a Bofors gun ashore at Mele BeachNZ Army80
Troops board the USS transport, President Hayes, NoumeaNZ Army80

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14 Brigade Group landing, Point Cruz, GuadalcanalNZ Army80
Men of 36 Battalion on USSPresident Jackson NZ Army112
Below deck on the way from New Hebrides to GuadalcanalNZ Army112
Malaria Control Unit spraying 37 Field Park Company's camp, GuadalcanalNZ Army112
Henderson Field, Guadalcanal112
US Marines following a trail on GuadalcanalUS Official112
Ready for embarkation at Kukum Beach, Guadalcanal, before sailing for Vella LavellaNZ Army112
Loading rations at Guadalcanal for Vella LavellaNZ Army112
14 Brigade units landing at Vella LavellaUS Army Signal Corps112
On Vella LavellaNZ Army144
A patrol from 35 Battalion at Pakoi BayNZ Army144
Interrogation of a Japanese prisoner of war, Vella LavellaNZ Army144
35 Anti-Tank Battery at Maravari, Vella LavellaNZ Army144
Umomo Island shelled by 12 Field BatteryNZ Army144
Carrier Platoon of 35 Battalion crosses Timbala Bay in a native canoeNZ Army144
Muddy conditions, Tangalan Plantation area, Nissan IslandNZ Army144
20 Field Company's bridge over Joroveto River, Vella LavellaUS Navy Official144
Landing Craft (Infantry) of the invasion convoy at GuadalcanalA. E. Tilley176
Landing Craft (Tank) beached at Mono IslandNZ Army176
A 25-pounder damaged by enemy mortar fire, FalamaiA. E. Tilley176
A Landing Ship (Tank) beached at Mono IslandUS Navy176
Foxholes in a bivouac area at Malsi Village, Mono IslandNZ Army176
Unloading operations at FalamaiNZ Army176
Embarking on a Landing Craft (Infantry) at Juno Beach, Vella Lavella, for Nissan IslandNZ Army176
Landing craft entering the lagoon at Nissan IslandUS Official176

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Raid by 30 Battalion on Nissan IslandUS Marine Corps Official272
Wounded of 30 Battalion waiting to be taken off Nissan IslandUS Marine Corps272
New Zealand engineers forming a road through the jungle of Nissan IslandNZ Army272
Tangalan PlantationUS Official272
RNZAF Fighter Squadrons land on the fighter strip at NissanNZ Army272
First Commando Fiji Guerrillas in the SolomonsUS Official272
Fiji Commandos officers' mess, Teneru, Guadalcanal272
Ready to leave Stirling Island for return to New CaledoniaNZ Army304
34 Battalion mess, TongaA. H. Rendell304
Major-General W. H. Cunningham, first Commander in Fiji304
Brigadier R. A. Row, Commander of 8 Brigade, and Sir Cyril Newall, Governor-General of New Zealand, on an inspection tour in the Treasury Group304
Lieutenant-Colonel F. C. Cornwall, Brigadier L. Potter, Commander of 14 Brigade, and Lieutenant-Colonel J. F. Moffatt on Nissan Island304
Minister of Defence and senior officers on board a transport at Noumea304
22 NZ Battalion controlling the Japanese repatriation center at Senzaki, Japan304
New Zealanders watch Japanese farm labourers plant the new season's rice304

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Title: The Pacific

Author: Gillespie, Oliver A.

Editor: Howard Karl Kippenberger

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1952, 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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