The Pacific

Contents

• • [covers]
  • [half]
  • [frontispiece]
  • [title page]
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Maps
• • CHAPTER 1 — Japan—Rise and Conquest
  • CHAPTER 2 — The Fiji Garrison
    • I: New Zealand's Responsibility
    • II: The First Force and its Work
    • III: From Pearl Harbour to Relief
  • CHAPTER 3 — Problems of Command and Employment
    • I: America Plans the Offensive
    • II: New Zealand Emerges in the Pacific Plan
  • CHAPTER 4 — Back to the Pacific
    • I: The Third Division Emerges
    • II: Move to New Caledonia
    • III: Life Among the Niaoulis
    • IV: Negotiations—Political and Service
    • V: Training for Combat
  • CHAPTER 5 — Three Island Actions
    • I: Vella Lavella
    • II: The Treasuries
    • III: The Waiting Period
    • IV: The Capture of Green Islands
  • CHAPTER 6 — The End of a Division
  • CHAPTER 7 — The Battle for the Solomons
    • I: Japanese Plans Defeated
    • II: The Turning Point
    • III: Crucial Action
    • IV: The Japanese Move Back
  • CHAPTER 8 — The Coastwatchers
  • CHAPTER 9 — Navy and Air Force
    • I: The Navy in the Solomons
    • II: The Air Force Story
  • CHAPTER 10 — Fiji Units in Action
    • I: Training a Brigade Group
    • II: Guerrillas in the Jungle
    • III: Battalions Move to the Solomons
  • CHAPTER 11 — The Smaller Garrisons
    • I: Fanning Island
    • II: Tonga
    • III: Norfolk Island
  • CHAPTER 12 — Occupation in Japan
  • CHAPTER 13 — Reflections
  • Appendix I
  • Appendix II
  • Appendix III
    • [section]
    • Annex I
  • Appendix IV
    • [section]
    • [untitled]
• • Appendix V
  • Appendix VI
  • Appendix VII
  • Appendix VIII
  • Appendix IX
  • Appendix X
  • Appendix XI
  • Appendix XII
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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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

Keywords: New Zealand World War II History

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