This page is for those of you who want to have a look at the sources and publications I consulted to write my blog posts and novels.
I still do research to support my writing, so look out for periodic updates .
1. USAAF / US Navy operations in the Philippines and Java
- “Summary of Air Actions in the Philippines and Netherlands East Indies – 7 Dec 1941 – 26 March 1942” – Asst. Chief of Air Staff Intelligence Division (Declassified IAW EO12958)
- “Army Air Action in the Philippines and Netherlands East Indies – AAFRH-11” – Asst. Chief of Air Staff Intelligence Division (Declassified IAW EO 12958)
- “The Invasion of the Dutch East Indies”; Senshi Sōsho (War History Series) Combined Army – Navy Operations; Volume 3
- “The Fall of the Philippines; United States Army in World War Two – The War in the Pacific”, Louis Morton, http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-P-PI/
- “Admiral Thomas C. Hart and the demise of the Asiatic Fleet”, David DuBois, M.A. Thesis, East Tennessee State University, May 2014.
“Dutch Neutrality and the ABDACOM experience, 1941 – 1942”, Saskia Virginia Noot, MA Thesis Leiden University 2016 - “Paradise in Peril; Western colonial power and Japanese expansion in South-East Asia, 1905 – 1941; Bussemaker; University of Amsterdam, 2001
- “Allied air campaign across Australia, Sumatra, Java, the Philippines, Burma and Ceylon” Brian Cull.
- “5th Air Force in Australia 1942 – 1945” – http://www.ozatwar.com
- “Patrol Wing 10 US Navy (PatWing 10), http://www.ozatwar.com
- “Darwin 1942 – The Japanese attack on Australia” – Bob Alford.
- “Australia’s Pearl Harbor – the Japanese air raid on Darwin” – Tom Womack,
- “5th Air Force in Australia 1942 – 1945” – http://www.ozatwar.com
- “P-40E/E-1 Operations in Australia Part 1 – 5”, ADF Serials, Gordon R. Birkett
- “USAAF Worldwide Operations Chronology, December ’41 – March ’42″, Aircrew Remembered
- “The Army Air Forces in World War II” V1-5 – Wesley Frank Craven,
- “Joint Actions by Allied Air and Naval Forces at Java on 26-27 February 1942″ – Peter C. Boer
- “17th Pursuit Sqn in Java” – Col Lester J Johnson, USAF (ret), Air Force Magazine, Sept 1980,
- “From Bali to Berlin”, Brigadier General Thomas L. Hayes, interviewed by Tom Guttman
- “The 27th Reports” – extracts from diaries, copies of official orders, stories Jan 1,’40 – May 27, 1942; various authors
- “The Brereton Diaries; The War in the Air in the Pacific, Middle-East and Europe, 3 October 1941 – 8 May 1945”, Lewis H, Brereton, William Morrow &Company, 1946
- “A Pretty Damn Able Commander – Lewis Hyde Brereton” – Air Force Historical Foundation 2001, Roger G. Miller,
- “General Kenney reports: a personal history of the Pacific War” – George Churchill Kenney,
- “They Fought With What They Had” – Walter Dumaux Edmonds
- ‘7th Bombardment Group/Wing, 1918-1995 ‘ – Robert F. Dorr
- “The Army Air Forces in World War II V1-5″ – Wesley Frank Craven,
- “In the Hands of Fate; the story of Patrol Wing 10; 8 December 1941 – 11May 1942”, Dwight R. Messimer
- “US Navy PBY Catalina units of the Pacific War” – Louis B. Dorny
- “Bloody Shambles: The defence of Sumatra to the fall of Burma” – Christopher F. Shores,
- “Doomed at the start: American pursuit pilots in the Philippines,1941-1942” – William H. Bartsch
- “Every Day a Nightmare: American Pursuit Pilots in the Defense of Java”, 1941-1942″ – William H. Bartsch,
- “Weller’s War: A Legendary Foreign Correspondent’s Saga of World War II ” – George Weller
- “Hurricane Aces 1941-45” – Andrew Thomas,
- “Samurai!” – Saburo Sakai,
- “The Saga of Pappy Gunn” – George C. Kenney
2. Malayan / Singapore Campaign
- “Fortnight of Infamy; the collapse of Allied Air Power West of Pearl Harbor” – John Burton:
- “Britain’s Greatest Defeat – Singapore 1942” – Allan Warren:
- “Malaya and Singapore 1941 / 42 – the fall of the British Empire in the East” – Mark Stille:
- “10 Days at Butterworth” – article in ‘Eastwards’, Journal of the RAF Butterworth / Penang Association
- “New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force – Volume III, Chapter 11 — Malaya, Sumatra, and Java”; Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, Electronic Text Collection; http://www.nzetc.victoria.ac.nz
- “Report on the air operations during the campaigns in Malaya and Netherlands East Indies from the 8th December 1941 to the 12th March 1942” – The London Gazette, 26 February 1946
3. Java Campaign
- “The Depot Squadron of the KNIL Army Aviation Corps and the Java-Australia airlift in the period February-March 1942″ – Dr. P.C. Boer
- ” The ‘Black Force (Java)” – The AWM monographs
- “Brief Diary of ‘B’ Squadron 3rd Hussars” – Major P. William-Powlett, M.C.
- “The British Tank Unit in the East Indies” – Jacques Jost
- “British Light Tanks 1925 – 1945” – David Fletcher
- “British 3rd Hussar Tank Squadron in the Dutch East Indies, 1942″ – from “The Galloping Third” by Hector Bolitho.
4. Australia in WW2
- “The Japanese Navy’s operations against Australia”; Tanaka Hiromi, Journal of the Australian War Memorial – Issue 30
- “Lowe Report”, Commission of Inquiry concerning the circumstances connected with the attack made by Japanese aircraft at Darwin on 19th February 1942”; Australian Government, October 5, 1945
- Australia in War, 1940-1945
(http://home.st.net.au/~dunn - http://www.ozatwar.com/wa12.htm
- Royal Australian Air Force in WW2
http://www.adf-serials.com.au/research/nei.htm
5. Informative Websites
- The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941-1942 http://dutcheastindies.webs.com/)
L. Klemens’ excellent website offers a very well structured, detailed and generally unbiased account of the dramatic events that took place so long ago. It is a useful starting point for those who are really interested in reading more about the Dutch – Japanese conflict. - “Far Eastern Heroes” (http://www.far-eastern-heroes.org.uk)
- The Rising Sun: The invasion of Guam Island, Wake Island, the Philippines and Malaya, 1941-1942 (http://metalab.unc.edu/hyperwar/PTO/RisingSun/index.html )
- The Galloping Ghost of the Java Coast: The last battle of USS heavy cruiser Houston (http://www.usshouston.org/)
- The Java Sea Campaign, January-February 1942. (http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/USN-CN-Java/index.html)
- The US Army campaigns of World War II: China Offensive (http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-C-ChinaO/ )
— Updated July 28, 2018 —