Australian War Memorial - Research Essays

Research Essays

The AJRP has commissioned experts in the field to write the following essays on historical sources relating to the project.

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1 About AWM 82 Captured Japanese documents (English) by Professor TANAKA Hiromi, translated by Keiko Tamura

2 Australia and Japan at war, 1941-1946: Selected images from the photograph collection of the Australian War Memorial by Dr Richard Reid

Section 1 - War for the Empire: Malaya and Singapore, Dec 1941 to Feb 1942

Section 2 - Japanese advance: Papua New Guinea, Dec 1941 to Jan 1943

Section 3 - Australia under attack: 1942 to 1943

Section 4 - Japanese retreat: New Guinea, Borneo and the South West Pacific, Jan 1943 to Aug 1945

Section 5 - In captivity: Australian prisoners-of-war of the Japanese, Feb 1942 to Aug 1945

Section 6 - In captivity: Japanese prisoners-of-war and civilian internees in Australia, 1943 to 1946

Section 7 - Victory and defeat: Aug 1945 to Sep 1946

3 Australian Pacific War unit histories by Richard Pelvin

4 Japanese operations against the Australian mainland in the Second World War:
A survey of Japanese historical sources by SHINDO Hiroyuki

5 Japanese submarine operations against Australia 1942-1944 by Dr David M. Stevens

6 Kure City history project by Keiko Tamura

7 Official Australian records of the Pacific War by Dr David Horner

8 Report on historical sources on Australia and Japan at war in Papua and New Guinea, 1942-45 by Professor Hank Nelson

9 Unit histories of Japanese forces in Papua and New Guinea by Dr Hiromitsu IWAMOTO

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