Invasion Rabaul (49 page)

Duranbah
,
166
,
202

Gunjin Chokuyu
,
72
,
74

Hiei,
71

Junyu Maru
,
266

Kaga
,
71
,
74
,
76
,
80
,
83
,
107
,
122

Katori
,
65
,
66

Kirishima
,
71

Kiyokawa Maru
,
107

Komaki Maru
,
222
,
223

Mito Maru
,
112

Montevideo Maru
,
235
-238,
240
-242,
246
-248,
259
,
260
,
262
,
263
,
265
-270

Naruto Maru
,
245
-248

Okinoshima
,
93
,
103

Rio de Janeiro Maru
,
10
,
240

Shoho
,
225
,
226

Shokaku
,
71
,
74
,
225
,
226

Tenyo Maru
,
103

Tone
,
71

Toyohasi Maru
,
230

Tsugaru
,
103

Venice Maru
,
72
,
200

Yokohama Maru
,
71
,
104

Japanese Vessels, continued

Zuikaku
,
71
,
225
,
226

Herstein
,
70
,
76
,
77
,
79
,
88
,
90
,
119
,
143
,
235

Quong Wah
,
178

U.S. Vessels

Lexington
,
208
,
209
,
225

Neosho
,
225

Phelps
,
226

President Johnson
,
185

Sims
,
225

Sturgeon
,
8
-10,
228
,
229

Yorktown
,
225
,
226
,
229

Volcanic activity,
27
-29,
33
,
38
,
39
,
42
,
43

Von Bismarck, Otto,
34

Vulcan Crater,
100

Vulcan Island eruption,
38
,
39
,
101
,
102
,
105

Vunakanau airdrome,
52
,
57
,
69
,
75
,
77
,
82
,
83
,
85
,
87
,
88
,
95
,
96
(map),
102
,
104
,
105
,
109
,
111
,
127
,
128
,
132
,
145
,
165
,
208

Vunapope mission,
89
,
117
-119,
130
,
209
-211,
215
,
216
,
221
,
223
,
226
,
244
,
245
,
259

Waitavalo plantation,
152
,
157
,
168
,
169

Walkley, Norman W.,
152
,
168

Walsh, Sergeant Richard,
88

Walstab, Lieutenant Colonel John,
45

Wau, New Guinea,
40

Webster, Hugh J. “Nipper,”
152
,
182
,
197

Webster, Private Norman D.,
49
,
108
,
128
,
158
,
159

Whyte Johnson, Lorna,
11
,
40
,
42
,
47
,
48
,
117
,
210
,
243
,
255
-257,
259

Wide Bay,
143
,
146
,
167

Wigmore, Lionel,
45

Williams, Major Harold S.,
259
,
260
,
269
,
270

Wright, Lieutenant Commander William L. “Bull,”
228
-231,
239
,
240
,
242
,
266

Wunung plantation,
180
,
182
,
184
-187,
190

Yamaji, Yoshiaki,
267
,
268

Yamamoto, Admiral Isoroku,
225
,
228
,
229

YMCA,
18

Yokohama Yacht Club,
249
,
254
,
255

Yokohama,
248

Zentsuji POW camp,
244
,
249
-251,
253
,
254

For Rachel Gamble, and Ian Gamble, and all the Diggers

First published in 2006 as
Darkest Hour
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Digital edition: 978-1-62788-131-9
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Library of Congress has Cataloged the first edition of this book as follows:

Gamble, Bruce.

Darkest hour : the true story of Lark Force at Rabaul - Australia’s worst military disaster of World War II / By Bruce Gamble.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-2349-6 (hardbound w/jacket)

ISBN-10: 0-7603-2349-6 (hardbound w/ jacket)

1. Australia. Australian Army. Australian Imperial Force (1940-1947). Infantry Battalion, 2/22nd—History—World War, 1939-1945. 2. World War, 1939-1945—Regimental histories—Australia. 3. World War, 1939-1945—Campaigns—Papua New Guinea—Rabaul. 4. World War, 1939-1945—Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 5. Prisoners of war—Australia. 6. World War, 1939-1945—Atrocities—Papua New Guinea—Rabaul. 7. Montevideo Maru (Ship) I. Title. D767.813.G35 2006

940.54’26585—dc22

2006029035

Layout: Jennifer Maas

Cover design: Kent Jenson

On the cover:
Rabaul under attack.
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