This web feature was written by Jock Phillips and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team. It was revised by Gareth Phipps in 2011.
Links
- Eleanor Roosevelt’s tour of the Pacific – includes plain text and Flash interactive versions of her itinerary (PBS)
- North Americans entry (Te Ara)
- US Marines at Paekākāriki (Paekakariki Rail and Heritage Museum)
- US Marines in Kapiti, 1942-1944 (Marinenz)
- The American invasion, in Nancy Taylor, The home front, volume I, Historical Publications Branch, Wellington, 1986 (NZETC)
Books
- Denys Bevan, United States forces in New Zealand 1942–1945, Macpherson Publishing, Alexandra, 1992
- Harry Bioletti, The Yanks are coming: the American invasion of New Zealand 1942–1944, Century Hutchinson, Auckland, 1989
- Ian McGibbon (ed.), ‘United States troops in New Zealand’, The Oxford companion to New Zealand military history, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 2000, pp. 550–2
- Malcolm McKinnon (ed.), New Zealand historical atlas/Ko Papatuanuku e takoto nei, David Bateman Ltd/Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 1997
- Deborah Montgomerie, The women’s war: New Zealand women 1939–45, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2001
- Jock Phillips with Ellen Ellis, Brief encounter: American forces and the New Zealand people 1942–1945, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 1992
- Nancy Taylor, The home front, Historical Publications Branch, Wellington, 1986, esp. vol. 1, ch. 14, ‘The American invasion’
