Invasion Rabaul (44 page)

“Night after night”:
Angell, “The Forgotten Prisoners of Rabaul.”

“Flames were caught”:
Bowman, p.
187
.

“turned-up wings”:
ibid., p.
183
.

Rumors of “big bomb” and Emperor Hirohito’s surrender address:
ibid., p.
199
.

“Well, if you haven’t anything else to do”:
Hutchinson-Smith, p.
283
.

“When we got back to Sydney”:
L. Johnson, author’s interview.

Findings of Maj. H. S. Williams:
AWM 54 (779/1/1).

Investigation in Japan:
Hon. E. E. Ward, October 5, 1945.

“IT IS WITH DEEP REGRET”:
Sample telegram in C. Johnson, p.
148
.

“As
we stand here today”:
Hodges, Australian War Memorial presentation, July 1, 2002.

Epilogue

Hellship statistics:
Michno, pp. 309–317.

Details of relative positions of
Montevideo Maru
and USS
Sturgeon:
OSK report via Cundall; SS187/A12–1, Serial 06.

“When I got up on deck”
and other quotes from Seaman Yamaji:
Australian Broadcasting Company, “Silence Broken” transcript.

“It implies to me”:
Cundall, correspondence with author.

“Information of the loss”:
quoted in AWM 54 (779/1/1).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Rabaul 1942
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Bloomfield, David.
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Not Now Tomorrow
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Feldt, Eric.
The Coastwatchers
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Johnson, Stanley.
Queen of the Flattops
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Pocket Guide to Australia
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Dunn, Peter.
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Informational Bulletin No. 9. Care of Personnel in the Wet Tropics
. Headquarters, Army Air Forces, January 25, 1944.

Intelligence Bulletin Vol. I, No. 1, Section III. Food
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Intelligence Bulletin Vol. I, No. 5, Section III. The Individual Soldier
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Department, Military Intelligence Division, May 1944.

Intelligence Bulletin Vol. Ill, No. 5. The Imperial Rescript
. War Department, Military Intelligence Division. January 1945.

Print Articles

Miyake, Toshio. “The Capture of Kawieng.”
Osaka Mainichi & The Tokyo

Nichi Nichi
, February 10, 1942, p. 3.

Thomas, Gordon. “In Rabaul, Under the Japs.”
Pacific Islands Yearbook, 1950
. Sydney: Pacific Publications, 1950.

Thomson, J. P. “The Islands of the Pacific.”
National Geographic
, December 1921, pp. 550–559.

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Angell, Barbara. “Brave Women Pages: The Forgotten Prisoners of Rabaul.”
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.

Australian Broadcasting Company. “Silence Broken on Australia’s Worst Maritime Disaster.”
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2003/s961016.htm
.

Australia-Japan Research Project. “Army Operations in the South Pacific

Area: Papua Campaigns, 1942–1943. Chapter 1: Offensive Against Rabaul and Key Surrounding Areas. (Translation by Dr. Steven Bullard of
Senshi Sosho: Minami Taiheiyo Rikugun Sakusen, 1: Poto Moresubi-Gashima Shoko Sakusen [War History Series: South Pacific Area Army Operations, Vol. 1: Port Moresby-Guadalcanal First Campaigns]
. Tokyo: Asagumo Shinbunsha, 1968.)
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.

Johnson, H. “The 2001 Christmas Luncheon Commemorating the 60th Anniversary Reunion of PNG Evacuees.” Extract from
Una Voce
, March 2002.
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.

Kawamoto, Minoru. “Some Moments In The Barracks Of A Japanese Army Recruit.”
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.

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.

Miller, Rod. “The Montevideo Maru.”
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Park, Okryon. “Stories from the Comfort Women.”
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Unpublished Manuscripts and Collections

Cook, William: Untitled. Narrative of the Tol massacre and escape from New Britain. 2/22nd Battalion, Lark Force Association, North Balwyn, N.S.W., undated.

Harry, C. O. “New Britain 1941/42.” 2/22nd Battalion, Lark Force Association, North Balwyn, N.S.W., circa 2000.

Hutchinson-Smith, David. “Guests of the Emperor.” AWM Private Collections, #MSS 1534, Australian War Memorial.

Lyons, Frank. Untitled. Excerpts from the 1944 Webb Commission’s report on Japanese atrocities. 2/22nd Battalion, Lark Force Association, North Balwyn, N.S.W., circa 1980.

Pearson, Percy. “2/22nd Battalion Diary.” 2/22nd Battalion, Lark Force Association, North Balwyn, N.S.W.

Steinbinder, John. Untitled. Personal diary from December 1941 to December 1942. Author’s collection.

Taylor, Archibald. Untitled. Extracts from personal diary. 2/22nd Battalion, Lark Force Association, North Balwyn, N.S.W., undated.

Official Documents—Australian

AWM 54 (81/4/194): RAAF Operations report compiled by S/L W.D. Brookes, February 24, 1942.

AWM 54 (607/7/1): AIF report compiled by Maj. P.E. Figgis, circa 1942.

AWM 54 (607/8/2): AIF report by Lt. Col. H.H. Carr, Capt. D.F. Field, Capt. E.S. Appel, Lt. A.R. Tolmer & Lt. J.G. Donaldson, March 1942.

AWM 54 (607/9/3): AIF account of escape by Lt. B. Dawson, circa 1942.

AWM 54 (607/9/5): Rabaul account of escape by Sergeant D. F. Ferguson, circa 1942.

AWM 54 (608/5/3): AIF report and medical extract by Maj. E. C. Palmer, August 22, 1942.

AWM 54 (779/1/1): Report from Maj. H.S. Williams regarding the sinking of
Montevideo Maru
, material dated October 6, and November 6, 1945.

AWM 54 (779/1/26A): American and Japanese accounts of the sinking of
Montevideo Maru
.

AWM 60 (259): Untitled. Collected statements in response to Court of Inquiry.

AWM 68 (3DRL 8052/108): Minutes, War Cabinet meeting, Melbourne, October 15, 1941.

AWM 113 (MH 1/121, Part 1): Official inquiry into the Japanese landings at Rabaul, with attached summary by R.W. Robson, editor of “Pacific Islands Monthly.”

B5563/2 (1911): Prisoner of War Information Bureau: Sworn Testimony of Shojiro Mizusaki, Tokyo, circa 1949 (National Archives of Australia).

B5563/2 (2249): Prisoner of War Information Bureau: Sworn Testimony of Minoru Yoshimura, Tokyo, circa 1949 (National Archives of Australia).

Cablegram 154, Prime Minister’s Department to Australian Minister, Washington, December 15, 1941 (National Archives of Australia).

MP729/6 (16/401/493): Cable 152, Chief of Naval Staff, Prime Minister’s Department to Australian Minister (Naval Attache), Washington, D.C., December 12, 1941 (National Archives of Australia).

Minutes, Parliamentary Debates, Canberra, Vol. 185, October 5, 1945 (National Archives of Australia).

Official Documents—Japanese

AWM 3DRL/4005: Diary of Akiyoshi Hisaeda, March 10, 1941 to November 16, 1942.

AWM 54 (208/2/4): ATIS translations of miscellaneous captured documents.

AWM 54 (423/4/158): ATIS Enemy Publications, Detailed Battle Report
No. 2 (Rabaul Occupation Operations), June 2, 1943.

AWM 54 (423/4/1162): “Military Intelligence Section, Full Translation of a Report on the Japanese Invasion of Rabaul,” May 9, 1946.

AWM 54 (608/5/4): “Japanese South East Area Operations Record (South Seas Detachment Operations) Monograph No. 143 (Army),” circa 1946.

AWM 55 (12/140): ATIS Information Request Report No. 103, Japanese statements and diary excerpts relating to prisoners of war, May 4, 1944.

Official Documents—American

Department of the Army, Office of the Chief of Military History,
History of the Southern Army, Japanese Monograph No. 24
, Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.