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Author Adams, Bruce, 1934-

Title Rust in peace : South Pacific battlegrounds revisited / by Bruce Adams
Published Sydney : Antipodean Publishers, 1975

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 W'PONDS  940.5426 Ada/Rip  AVAILABLE
Description 239 pages : illustrations (part color), maps on lining papers ; 29 cm
Contents Introduction -- Looking back -- New Guinea -- Lae and Salamaua -- Papua -- Western drive -- Yesterday and tomorrow -- Solomon Islands -- Gilbert Islands -- The coastwatchers -- Darwin -- The inheritors -- Acknowledgments
Summary Photographs of Pacific battlefields & military hardware 25 years after hostilities ceased, with accounts of the actual battles and modern descriptions of the islands
Notes World War 2. Battle fields. South Pacific area (ANB/PRECIS SIN 0046981)
Subject Battlefields -- Oceania.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Battlefields.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean -- Sources.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Photographs.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Oceania -- Pictorial works.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Oceania.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Ocean.
SUBJECT Oceania -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093911
Oceania -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116422
Genre/Form Sound recordings.
LC no. 76355824
ISBN 0869440322