Further resources

Collected stories from the Provinces

Voices from the war: Stories from Milne Bay

 

Voices from the war: Stories from New Ireland

 

Remembering the war in Oro: Interviews from the 'Women Remember the War' Project 2016-2018. Part of the PNG Oral History Project.

Digitised pamphlets from Deakin University Library

Deakin University has in its collection a number of digitised pamphlets about the war in Papua New Guinea.

These publications are out of copyright, and are available for you to freely access, download and re-use as you like: 

Among the ruins: a New Guinea epic (1943)

 

Among those present, the official story of the Pacific islands war (1944)

 

New Guinea action: a pictorial record of the Allied advance on the world’s most treacherous battlefield (1944)

 

Ocean front: the story of the war in the Pacific (1945)

Resources for Schools

Oro women in the Second World War: Stories from the 'Women Remember the War' Project, 2016-2018

 

Aisoli Salin of New Ireland: Memories of a great teacher

Websites

Australian War Memorial

Australia and the Second World War

Australia Japan Research Project

Pacific Wrecks