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The foundations of victory : the Pacific war, 1943-1944 : the 2003 Chief of Army's Military History Conference / edited by Peter Dennis & Jeffrey Grey.

Title
The foundations of victory : the Pacific war, 1943-1944 : the 2003 Chief of Army's Military History Conference / edited by Peter Dennis & Jeffrey Grey.
Publication
Canberra : Army History Unit, Department of Defence, 2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Dennis, Peter.
  • Grey, Jeffrey.
  • Chief of Army's Military History Conference (2003)
Description
xvii, 211 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
Summary
This volume of `essays deals with the years of the counter-offensive against Japanese aggression in 1943-44 and sheds important light on a little-known period of the wart and the conduct of the campaign in New Guinea.
Alternative Title
  • Foundations of victory and the Pacific war 1943-1944
  • Pacific war 1943-1944
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- The Pacific War, 1943, and Australian national memory -- Before Finschhafen : preparing, training, and equipping the forces -- Strategy and generalship : strategic and operational planning for the 1943 offensives -- The war in New Guinea 1943-44 : operations and tactics -- No "black magic" : doctrine and training for jungle warfare -- Organizing for Jungle warfare -- Logistics in the South-West Pacific 1943-1944 -- The Nakai contingency unit and the battles of Kankirei range -- Rising from the ashes : allied air power and air support for 14th Army in Burma, 1943-9145 -- The allied translator and interpreter section : the critical role of allied linguistics in the process of propaganda creation, 1943-1944 -- "A fatalistic bloke" : Australian attitudes towards the Japanese in New Guinea, 1943-1944 -- Medicine at War : The "pivot years" of 1943 and 1944 in the New Guinea Campaign -- The green hole reconsidered.
ISBN
0646435906
OCLC
  • 59714455
  • SCSB-11803298
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library