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Authors: Peter Fitzsimons

Tags: #Non-Fiction, #History, #War

Edgar, Bill
Warrior of Kokoda: A Biography of Brigadier Arnold Potts
, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1999.

Gallaway, Jack
The Odd Couple: Blamey and MacArthur at War
, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2000.

Hall, Tim,
New Guinea 1942-44
, Methuen, Sydney, 1981.

Hetherington,
Blamey: The Biography of Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey
, Melbourne, Chesire, 1954.

Horner, David
Blamey: The Commander-in-Chief,
Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998.

——
Crisis of Command: Australian Generalship and the Japanese Threat
, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1978.

——
General Vasey’s War
, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1992.

——
Inside the War Cabinet
.
Directing Australia’s War Effort 1939–45
, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1996.

Hoyt, Edwin P.
Warlord: Tojo Against the World,
Cooper Square Press, New York, 2001.

James, Bill
Kokoda 1942: A Trekker’s Guide to the Lost Battlefields,
First draft published June 2002.

Johnston, George H.
New Guinea Diary
, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1943.

Lindsay, Patrick
The Spirit of Kokoda,
Hardie Grant, Melbourne, 2002.

Manchester, William
American Caesar:
Douglas MacArthur 1880–1964
, Dell Publishing, Boston, 1978.

McArthy, Dudley
Australia in the War of 1939–1945: South West Pacific Area First Year, Kokoda to Wau
, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1959.

McAulay, Lex
Blood and Iron
:
The Battle for Kokoda 1942
, Hutchison, Sydney, 2nd edn, 1992.

McDonald, Neil
War Cameraman: The Story of Damien Parer
, Lothian, Melbourne, 1994.

——
Damien Parer’s War
, Lothian, Melbourne, revised edition 2004.

McDonald, Robert James
Kokoda Trail: McDonald’s Corner
, Self- published, 2003.

McInnes, Dianne,
A Tribute to the Brave: 1941 to 1945, Papua New Guinea.
South Pacific Post, 1992.

Mehan, Russell
An Unrewarded Hero: The Alan Haddy Story
, Self-published 1996.

Milner, Samuel
Victory in Papua: United States Army in World War II, The War in the Pacific,
Center of Military History United States Army, Washington D.C., 1989.

Murphy, John J.
The Book of Pidgin English
, Robert Brown & Associates, 1943.

Nile, Richard & Clerk, Christian
Cultural Atlas of Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific
, RD Press, 1996.

Paull, Raymond
Retreat From Kokoda: The Australian Campaign in New Guinea 1942
, Mandarin Australia, 1958.

Perrett, Geoffrey
Old Soldiers Never Die
, Random House, Sydney, 1996.

Pollard, Jack
Australian Rugby Union
:
The Game and the Players
, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1984.

Reading, Geoffrey
Papuan Story
, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1946.

Rowell, S. F.
Full Circle
. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1974.

Russell, W. B.
2/14th Australian Infantry Battalion
, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1948.

Steward, H. D.
Recollections of a Regimental Medical Officer
, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1983.

Stone, Peter
Hostages to Freedom: The Fall of Rabaul, New Guinea 1941–1945,
Oceans Enterprises, 1995, 2000.

Sublet, Frank
Kokoda to the Sea: A History of the 1942 Campaign in Papua
, Slouch Hat Publications, 2000.

Tanaka, Kengora
Operations of the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in the Papua New Guinea Theatre During World War II
, Japan Papua New Guinea Goodwill Society, 1980.

Vernon, G. H.
1942: A War Diary, The Owen Stanley Campaign, July–November 1942,
253/5/8 AWM 54.

Watson, Don
Recollections of a Bleeding Heart
, Vintage, Sydney, First edn 2002, edn 2003.

White, Osmar G
reen Armour,
Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1945.

Wilmot, Chester ‘Kokoda Road’ Disc. No. C.W.311

N
OTES

These notes contain sources of information where these are not obvious in the text, together with some information on the research process. Information that has not been referenced either here or in the text has been drawn from the author’s interviews and correspondence.

i Paul Keating quote from ‘Diggers Put Australia First’ Michael Gordon,
The Sunday Age
, 26 April 1992.

x Chester Wilmot quote from Kokoda Front, ABC Field Unit, Disc No CW 309 Side A

xxii Osmar White quote from
Green Armour
, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1945

I
N THE BEGINNING

1
From Albrecht Furst von Urach,
Das Geheimnis Japanischer kraft
, Berlin, Zentralverlag der NSDAP, 1943.
The Secret of Japanese Strength
by Albrecht Furst von Urach. Drawn from
www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/japan.htm
.

2
As reported in
The Medical Journal of Australia,
15 December 1945, p.427.

3
Account of Damien Parer growing up, adapted from the opening pages of Neil McDonald,
War Cameraman: The Story of Damien Parer
, Lothian, 1994.

4
To understand the constitutional structure of Japan, I found
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Hirohito
very useful.

5
Account of Damien Parer’s involvement in
Forty Thousand Horsemen
drawn from Neil McDonald,
War Cameraman
, p.22.

6
Hetherington,
Blamey: The Biography of Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey
, Melbourne, Chesire, 1954, p. vii. cited by David Horner,
Blamey: The Commander-in-Chief
, Allen & Unwin, 1998, p. 129.

S
TORM
C
LOUDS
G
ATHER

7
David Horner,
Crisis of Command: Australian Generalship and the Japanese Threat
, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1978, p. 16.

8
Prince Konoye’s address was delivered before the 76th session of the Imperial Diet in Tokyo, 21 January 1941.

9
The account of the meeting between Dupain and Parer is from Neil McDonald,
War Cameraman
, p.35.

10
Alan Gill, ‘Damien Parer: the unlikely war hero who was true to his faith’,
Sydney Morning Herald,
19 October 1988.

11
Neil McDonald,
War Cameraman
, p. 38.

12
This editorial appeared in the
New York Times
in early June 1940, and was subsequently reprinted in a 9th Division News Sheet in Egypt in 1942, where it was read and memorised by the author’s late father, Lieutenant Peter McCloy FitzSimons, who was serving with the 9th Division of the Australian Infantry Forces at the time.

13
Neil McDonald,
War Cameraman,
p. 111.

14
This article was quoted in a seminar paper written by Professor Hank Nelson ‘Payback: Australian Compensation to Wartime Papua New Guinea’, Australian National University, Canberra, 1999.

15
David Horner,
Blamey
, p. 53.

B
ATTLE
S
TATIONS

16
Edwin P. Hoyt,
Warlord: Tojo Against The World Book
, Cooper Square Press, New York, 2001, p. 43.

17
David Horner,
Crisis of Command
, p. 17.

18
Edwin P. Hoyt,
Warlord
, p. 79.

19
William Manchester,
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964,
Dell Company, Boston, 1978, p. 237.

20
Edwin P. Hoyt,
Warlord
, p. 225.

21
This is from ‘By Jingo’, the music-hall song by G. W. Hunt, which appeared at the time of the Russo–Turkish War (1877–8).

22
Quoted by Kim Beazley in a speech about leadership, October 2003.

23
Told to the author by Neil McDonald in a conversation between him and the former Head of News for the ABC at the time, Frank Dixon.

24
Information about Templeton’s background is drawn from Dudley McCarthy,
Australia in the War of 1939–45: South West Pacific Area First Year, Kokoda to Wau
, Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 1959, p. 115.

25
Victor Austin,
To Kokoda and Beyond: The Story of the 39th Battalion. 1941–43
, Melbourne University Press, 1988, p. 11.

26
Information on communiqués drawn from Jack Gallaway,
The Odd Couple: Blamey and MacArthur at War
, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2000, p. 21.

27
David Day,
The Politics of War
, HarperCollins, Sydney, 2003, p. 28.

28
Drawn from the the reminiscences of the 39th’s Sergent Kevin Grey on the Patrick Lindsay and George Friend film released in 1992,
The Bloody Track
. Mud, Mosquitoes, Malaria and Monotony

29
Osmar White,
Green Armour
, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1945, p. 34.

30
David Horner,
Blamey
, p. 355.

31
John Farquharson, ‘Crucial Force in the PNG Campaigns’,
The Canberra Times
, 30 August 2003.

32
Dianne McInnes, A Tribute to the Brave: 1941 to 1945, Papua New Guinea, South Pacific Post, 1992, p. 34.

33
Peter Stone,
Hostages to Freedom: The Fall of Rabaul, New Guinea 1941– 1945
, Oceans Enterprises, 1995, 2000, p. 44.

34
Quoted in a seminar paper by Hank Nelson ‘Payback: Australian Compensation to Wartime Papua New Guinea’, Australian National University, Canberra, 1999.