Overview

With America's 1941 entry into World War II and the movement of Japanese forces into the southern Pacific, a number of U.S. troops were sent to protect New Zealand so that their troops might remain with commitments in the Middle East and other important, established locations. Many American military men found New Zealand to be a second home as they were welcomed and adopted into communities by the locals. Over the course of the next four years, almost 1400 New Zealand women married American servicemen. The individual interviews herein record the varied and interesting tapestry of New Zealand's often overlooked war contribution and new relationship with America: New Zealand war veterans, New Zealanders on the home front, and American servicemen stationed on the island nation during the war. Four interviews with adults born as a result of American soldier--New Zealand women love affairs shed light on this sometimes uncomfortable aspect of all foreign wars. Photographs and short biographies of the interviewees round out this fascinating oral history.

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Author:   Bruce M. Petty
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.336kg
ISBN:  

9780786435272

ISBN 10:   0786435275
Pages:   243
Publication Date:   18 February 2008
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments      Author’s Note      Introduction      PART I Voices of New Zealand Veterans of the Pacific War 1. Thirty-six Battalion, Third New Zealand Division: Robert Gordon Dunlap      2. Medical Doctor with the Third New Zealand Division: Arthur N. Talbot      3. From Wellington Hospital to Fiji: Dr. Alan Hayton      4. Kiwi Sailor in the British Navy: Stanley B. Martin      5. From the Cavalry to Corsairs: Des H. Turnbull      6. Corsair Pilot, No. 16 Squadron: E.T. Lang      7. Kiwi Ace in the Pacific: Geoffrey Bryson Fisken      8. No. 1 Squadron, PV-1 Venturas: William John (Bill) Edhouse      9. The Dumbos at Tulagi, Six FB Squadron: Charles Lawrence ( Joe) Laird      10. A Stranger in Her Own Land: Tracy Tapuke Magon      PART II Voices from the New Zealand Home Front 11. A Marine from Georgia: Joan Hay Cudby      12. Taking in the Sick and Wounded: Darcy and Dallas Knuckey      13. The Names in the Hat: Ngaire Baker Duncan      14. Maori Elder: Georgina Kiripuai Aomarere      15. The Nurse: Louise Heffer Carkeek      16. From Whangamomona to Wellington: Wyn Muirson Stockwell      17. Farming in Ohura, an Essential Industry During the War: Melvin Alfred “Ike” Watts      18. The Lady and the Batsman: Joan Masters      PART III Voices of Americans in New Zealand 19. Sick and Hungry on Guadalcanal; Fat and Happy in New Zealand: Leonard E. Skinner      20. The Marine and the Farmer’s Daughter: Clifford Charles Carrigan and Sylvia P. Carrigan      21. Marine Corps Combat Photographer: Norman T. Hatch, USMCR (ret.)      22. The Marine and the Girl from Eltham: Joe Wetzel      23. Defending Samoa from Japanese Invasion: Carl W. Matthews      PART IV Voices from the Next Generation 24. The Missing Bit: Alfred Vaughan Leach      25. Lost Opportunities: June Margaret Baudinet (née Taringa) and Tanya Savage      26. Looking for My Father: Shirley Anne Winistoerfer Fairest      27. My Father Was a Marine: Clint Libby      Bibliography      Index     

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Bruce M. Petty served for two years on the U.S.S. Yorktown during the Vietnam War. A California native, he has lived in Saipan. His writings have been published in The Pacific Daily News, The Marianas Variety, Umanidat: A Journal of the Humanities and Journal of the Pacific Society. Formerly a nuclear medicine technologist, he currently writes in New Plymouth, New Zealand.

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