"Guns of Muschu" a excellent book..!

[x westie]

www.gunsofmuschu.com/home.html


For all you CGN milsurp and military history fans, this is very well written book, about a patrol of Australian Z Force commandos who landed by canoe on the Japanese held island of Muschu , off the coast of New Guinea ,


Of the eight man team, only one survived his close encounters with the Japanese, lots of neat stuff on the Aussie Owen smg, Austen smgs, S&W.38 revolvers, silenced Welrod Pistol , Aussie aircraft and pilots, the radios used by the commandos, Australian military intelligence reading Japanese radio traffic .also good description of how the Japanese army and navy operated .


Amazon.com lists this book at $23.47

 

[sail32]

There is a lot of WW 2 history of the Pacific that concerns New Zealanders and Australians that is not common knowledge.

The US history's claim that they captured Guadalcanal and Bourneville, but that's not quite correct. In Both cases they captured an area and stopped. after they had secured a perimeter.

The New Zealanders and Australians spent the rest of the war cleaning out the remaining Japanese. The Burnaby Library has books of these operations written by the service men who where there.

 

[sail32]

The book of the Australians in Bougainville was;

"War in the Shadows, Bougainville 1944 - 45 " by Peter Metcalf.

I could not find the book of the New Zealanders in Guadalcanal.

 

[x westie]

The book of the Australians in Bougainville was;

"War in the Shadows, Bougainville 1944 - 45 " by Peter Metcalf.

I could not find the book of the New Zealanders in Guadalcanal.

Thank you for showing me the titles of these books, i have always been interested in our Australian allies war effort in the South Pacific, the Australian soldier fought in some of the toughest infantry battles of the war, they never got the credit they deserved, as US General Douglas Macarthur would do anything to make the Aussie soldier as 2nd rate, and let the US troops get the credit,,, why Macarthur was never court martialed for his incompetent defense of the Phillipines is something i find difficult to fathom, the US media sure put him on a pedastal, stroked his over inflated ego /

 

[x westie]

The book of the Australians in Bougainville was;

"War in the Shadows, Bougainville 1944 - 45 " by Peter Metcalf.

I could not find the book of the New Zealanders in Guadalcanal.

Thank you for showing me the titles of these books, i have always been interested in our Australian allies war effort in the South Pacific, the Australian soldier fought in some of the toughest infantry battles of the war, they never got the credit they deserved, as US General Douglas Macarthur would do anything to make the Aussie soldier as 2nd rate, and let the US troops get the credit,,, why Macarthur was never court martialed for his incompetent defense of the Phillipines is something i find difficult to fathom, the US media sure put him on a pedastal, stroked his over inflated ego /