The Battle For Shaggy Ridge

Author : Phillip Bradley
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781761062636

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The Battle for Shaggy Ridge by Phillip Bradley Pdf

An enlightening re-examination of an important campaign following the experiences of the men from both sides. 'You climb and climb . . . This is the field of battle . . . tonight some of us will be dead . . . You'll never forget Shaggy Ridge.' - Shawn O'Leary From the killing ground of Kaiapit to the treacherous heights of the Finisterre Range, for four months in 1943-44 the Australian army fought to drive the Japanese from their mountain strongholds. The most formidable position was the fortress-like Shaggy Ridge, its steep sides rising sharply to a knife-edge crest where battle was joined on a one-man front. Based on the accounts of over a hundred Australians, Americans and Japanese who served on, around and over the ridge, The Battle for Shaggy Ridge tells the story of this extraordinary struggle for control of the Ramu Valley in New Guinea.

Author : Phillip Bradley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060403857

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On Shaggy Ridge by Phillip Bradley Pdf

This study details the dramatic but little-known story of the 1943-44 Ramu Valley campaign in New Guinea that culminated in the battle for Shaggy Ridge. Drawing on the vivid recollections of over 140 veterans and the author's own journeys in the region, the book brings to life Japan's dogged defense of this razorback ridge and how they resisted the Autralians for over four months.

Author : Tom Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0648665933

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The Empire Strikes South by Tom Lewis Pdf

Between 1942 and 1945 the Japanese waged a relentless air war against the vast expanses of Northern Australia. Using newly translated Japanese sources the The Empire Strikes South chronicles every Japanese air mission over Northern Australia and lists 187 Japanese airmen who lost their lives.

Author : Phillip Bradley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781922387769

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Salamaua 1943 by Phillip Bradley Pdf

Between the end of the Kokoda campaign in January 1943 and the start of the New Guinea offensives at Lae in early September 1943, the Australian Army was engaged in some of the most intense and challenging fighting of the war for the ridges around Salamaua. Following the defeat of the Japanese offensive against Wau, it was decided to carry the fight to the Japanese force at Salamaua but what started as platoon level actions in April and May 1943 soon developed into company, battalion and brigade level operations for control of the dominating ridge systems around Salamaua. Following an amphibious landing, an American infantry regiment and supporting artillery units were also drawn into the fighting in July 1943. Salamaua 1943 also includes detailed insights into the tenacious Japanese defence of Salamaua, a defence to a threat that in the end was only a feint to draw Japanese forces away from Lae. Incorporating over 120 photographs from the battlefield including drone footage plus 26 maps and the added detail of 15 sidebars, Salamaua 1943 takes the reader behind what was one of the most complex campaigns of the Pacific War.

Author : Mark Johnston
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1742235727

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An Australian Band of Brothers by Mark Johnston Pdf

This riveting book follows a small group of Australian front-line soldiers from their enlistment in the dark days of 1940 to the end of World War II. No ordinary soldiers, they were members of Don Company of the Second 43rd Battalion, part of the famous 9th Australian Division, which sustained more casualties and won more medals than any other Australian division. Inspired by American historian Stephen Ambrose's landmark book, Band of Brothers, about the US Army's Easy Company of the 506th Regiment, Mark Johnston, one of our best military historians, here gives an Australian company the same treatment. His book is a unique and powerful account of the everyday experiences of a small unit of Australian soldiers on the front line.

Author : Francis Pike
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 1209 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350021228

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Hirohito's War by Francis Pike Pdf

Named one of Foreign Affairs' Best Books of 2016 In his magisterial 1,208 page narrative of the Pacific War, Francis Pike's Hirohito's War offers an original interpretation, balancing the existing Western-centric view with attention to the Japanese perspective on the conflict. As well as giving a 'blow-by-blow' account of campaigns and battles, Francis Pike offers many challenges to the standard interpretations with regards to the causes of the war; Emperor Hirohito's war guilt; the inevitability of US Victory; the abilities of General MacArthur and Admiral Yamamoto; the role of China, Great Britain and Australia; military and naval technology; and the need for the fire-bombing of Japan and the eventual use of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hirohito's War is accompanied by additional online resources, including more details on logistics, economics, POWs, submarines and kamikaze, as well as a 1930-1945 timeline and over 200 maps.

Author : Phillip Bradley
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742372709

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Hell's Battlefield by Phillip Bradley Pdf

"The first book to tell the whole story of the Australians against the Japanese in Papua New Guinea during World War II. This is the war as the men described it in diaries, letters and memoirs. And in interviews with war correspondents, official historians and archivists, the author has reconstructed and bought to life the war from the perspective of the men who were there"--Inside front cover.

Author : Christine Helliwell
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781761342356

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Semut by Christine Helliwell Pdf

March 1945. A handful of young Allied operatives are parachuted into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of Borneo, east of Singapore, there to recruit the island's indigenous Dayak peoples to fight the Japanese. Yet most have barely encountered Asian or indigenous people before, speak next to no Borneo languages, and know little about Dayaks, other than that they have been - and may still be - headhunters. They fear that on arrival the Dayaks will kill them or hand them over to the Japanese. For their part, some Dayaks have never before seen a white face. So begins the story of Operation Semut, an Australian secret operation launched by the organisation codenamed Services Reconnaisance Department - popularly known as Z Special Unit - in the final months of WWII. Anthropologist Christine Helliwell has called on her years of first-hand knowledge of Borneo, interviewed more than one hundred Dayak people and all the remaining Semut operatives, and consulted thousands of military and other documents to piece together this astonishing story. Focusing on the operation's activities along two of Borneo's great rivers - the Baram and Rejang - the book provides a detailed military history of Semut II's and Semut III's brutal guerrilla campaign against the Japanese, and reveals the decisive but long-overlooked Dayak role in the operation. But this is no ordinary history. Helliwell captures vividly the sounds, smells and tastes of the jungles into which the operatives are plunged, an environment so terrifying that many are unsure whether jungle or Japanese is the greater enemy. And she takes us into the lives and cavernous longhouses of the Dayaks on whom their survival depends. The result is a truly unique account of the encounter between two very different cultures amidst the savagery of the Pacific War.

Author : David Dexter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1783310022

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Australia in the War of 1939-1945 Vol. VI: The New Guinea Offensives by David Dexter Pdf

This volume relates how the Australian Army, supported by Allied naval and air forces, and with the help of some American regiments, drove the Japanese out of most of the mainland of Australian New Guinea in 1943 and early 1944. It also describes the concurrent operations of the American Army and amphibious forces in the Pacific.When the history opens in April 1943 the only infantry in contact with the Japanese in the Pacific area is the incomplete 3rd Australian Division (mainly the 17th Brigade). There appears to be a jungle stalemate in the tangle of mountains overlooking the Japanese base at Salamaua. But the Allies are preparing and in September 1943 the offensive opens in which the Australian Army drives the Japanese from Lae and Salamaua, and later from the Huon Peninsula and the Ramu Valley. Finally the defeated and starving XVIII Japanese Army is in full retreat across the Sepik River towards Wewak. In the New Guinea operations described in this volume about 35,000 Japanese perished; the Australians who were killed in action or died of illness numbered fewer than 1,300.Throughout the campaigns four Australian divisions were employed. By mid-1944 Australia's military strength was, for the time being, almost spent, having borne the main burden of the fighting on land in the South-West Pacific from the outset. Early in 1944 the Sixth American Army had begum to take over the main tasks and by September, in successive amphibious strides, had reached as far as Morotai.

Author : Phillip Bradley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521763905

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To Salamaua by Phillip Bradley Pdf

Recounts the first of the New Guinea offensives by the Australian Army in WWII.

Author : Phillip Bradley
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781743317556

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Hell's Battlefield by Phillip Bradley Pdf

The first single volume history to cover all the battles fought by the Australians against the Japanese in Papua New Guinea.

Author : Phillip Bradley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521896818

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The Battle for Wau by Phillip Bradley Pdf

Bradley describes the early WWII conflicts in New Guinea, from the Japanese landing at Salamaua in 1942 to the defeat at Wau in 1943. Drawing on recollections from over seventy veterans and first-hand knowledge of the region, all aspects are brought together in one readable volume.

Author : Phillip Bradley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0369302036

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D-Day New Guinea by Phillip Bradley Pdf

'Java is heaven, Burma is hell, but you never come back alive from New Guinea' - Japanese military saying The capture of Lae was the most complex operation for the Australian army in the Second World War. In many ways it was also a rehearsal for the D-Day invasion of France, with an amphibious landing combined with the first successful large-scale Allied airborne operation of the war. D-Day New Guinea brings together the extraordinary stories of the Australian, American and Japanese participants in this battle, and of the fight against the cloying jungle, the raging rivers and the soaring mountain ranges that made New Guinea such a daunting battlefield. Phillip Bradley brings a compelling clarity, humanity and new insight into a little known but crucial Australian battle of the Pacific War.

Author : John H. G. Mackenzie-Smith
Publisher : Boolarong Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781921555855

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Tobruk's Easter Battle 1941 by John H. G. Mackenzie-Smith Pdf

The initial Australian and British victory over Rommels Afrika Korps on Easter Monday 1941 at Tobruk was Germanys first defeat in World War II. Incongruously the vital actions of Queenslands 2-15 Battalion on that day have been generally ignored. For the first time, this investigation places that lost body of infantrymen nearly four miles from the outer perimeter near El Adem crossroads. There they were dug in around two gallant Royal Horse Artillery batteries, which incurred heavy losses in turning around a concerted Panzer attack. In that battle the 2-15 A Company delivered the final blow to the accompanying German infantry, led by the formerly invincible Lt Colonel Gustav Ponath who was killed in the field. This ably researched and intriguing episode redresses the brave 2-15s subsequent sense of injustice.

Author : A. F. Chew
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 9781428915985

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Fighting the Russians in Winter: Three Case Studies by A. F. Chew Pdf