World War II Guide
Military Personnel
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Australian Women’s Army Service in the Northern Territory, NTC 940.5412 MACI |
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Australia in the war of 1939-1945.
(Series 1 to 5) Official history 940.53229 AUST |
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Black Diggers: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the Second World War. Robert Hall, 1989. NTC 940.54 HALL |
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From the North to the South: A.W.A.S. Australia. Army. Australian Woman's Army Service,1940 Available online |
Unit histories
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Bandy’s boys: Darwin Mobile Force. June Collins, 1989. NTC 355.31 COL |
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Curtin’s cowboys: Australia’s secret bush commandos. Richard and Helen Walker, 1986. NTC 940.541294 WAL |
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Convoys up the track: a history of 121st Australian General Transport Company (AIF), 1941 – 1946. Alan Smith, 1991. NTC 940.5412 SMI |
Military map makers in Northern Australia 1943-1945: No. 1 Section 6 Aust., Army Topographical Survey Coy.
Compiled and edited by J.F. Hunt, 1998.
NTC 940.548194 HUNT
Select Unit diaries on-line: www.awm.gov.au/diaries/ww2/
N.T. during WWII
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Federation frontline: a people’s history of World War II in the Northern Territory. Peter and Sheila Forrest, 2001. NTC 940.5429 FORR |
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Darwin 1942: Australia’s darkest hour. Timothy Hall, 1980. NTC 940.5426 HAL |
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The Navy in Darwin, 1941-1943, a graphic record from a sailor's sketchbooks with photographs from the early 1940s. Sketches by Pat Forster ;with recollections of Darwin 1941-1943, as told to Ted Egan.NTC 940.5429 FORS |
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WWII shipwrecks and the first Japanese air raid on Darwin, 19 February, 1942. Sophie McCarthy, 1992. NTC 940.5429 MACC |
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The Army and the defence of Darwin fortress: exploding the myths of the critical phase, ‘till September 1942. Robert J Rayner, 1995. NTC 940.5429 RAYN |
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Darwin’s battle for Australia: A history of Darwin’s role in the defence of Australia in WW2. Rex Ruwoldt, 2005. NTC 940.5429 RUWO |
Bombing of Darwin
Refugees in our own country: the story of Darwin’s wartime evacuees.
Janet Dickson, 1995.
NTC 940.53159 DIC
Reports by Commissioner (Justice Lowe),
Together with observations with thereon by the Departments of the Navy, Army, Air andInterior. (Royal Commission), 1942.
NTC 940.5394 AUST
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Australia’s Pearl Harbour, 1942. Douglas Lockwood, 1972. NTC 940.5394 LOC |
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The Shadow’s edge: Australia’s northern war. Allan Powell, 1988. NTC 940.53942 POW |
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A War at home: a comprehensive guide to the first Japanese attacks on Darwin. Tom Lewis, 1999. NTC 940.54 LEWI |
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The long road north. Alex Tanner, 1995. NTC 940.541 TAN |
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An Awkward Truth : the bombing of Darwin, February 1942. Peter Grose, 2009. NTC 940.5426 GROS |
For children
The bombing of Darwin: the diary of Tom Taylor, 1942.
Alan Tucker, 2002.
NTC A823.3 TUCK
Websites
Australian War Memorial
Find photographs, Roll of Honour, research Australia’s military history, family history and more.
National Archives of Australia
Find service records for military personnel, photographs, military research and more.
Northern Territory Archives Service
Access photograph catalogue, etc.
http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/ntas/
Images
PictureNT
Northern Territory Library’s database of historic photographs.
http://www.territorystories.nt.gov.au/handle/10070/4
Picture Australia
http://www.pictureaustralia.org/
Historic sites, trails
A wartime journey : Stuart Highway heritageguide.
Howard Pearce & Bob Alford, 2006.
NTC 994.29 PEAR
Down the track : a military buff’s guide to the Stuart Highway.
Peter Dermoudy, 1989.
NTC 940.5429 DER
Tales of history : World War II historic sites.
Dept. of Infrastructure, Planning and Environment, 2002.
NTC 940.5429 TRAI
Katherine and World War Two.
M. Canavan, Katherine Historical Society, 1991.
NTC 940.53942 CAN
The War outside Darwin : Daly Waters.
Compiled by Bob Alford; Suzanne Parry and Kath Manzie (eds.), 1993.
NTC 994.295 ALFO