Vella Lavella
(Place)
Mentioned in
- 27 (Machine Gun) Battalion
- 2nd New Zealand Divisional Artillery
- Chaplains
- Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume III
- Index
- 390 — Major-General Barrowclough to Army Headquarters (Wellington)
- 391 — Colonel Dove1 to Lieutenant-General Puttick
- 392 — Memorandum from Major-General Barrowclough to Army Headquarters (Wellington) — 3 NZ Division
- 393 — Major-General Barrowclough to Lieutenant-General Puttick
- 394 — Letter from Major-General Barrowclough to the Prime Minister
- 395 — Headquarters 3rd Division to Army Headquarters (Wellington)
- 398 — Letter from the acting Prime Minister1 to Major-General Barrowclough
- 403 — The Deputy Prime Minister to Major-General Barrowclough
- 406 — Letter from Major-General Barrowclough to the Prime Minister — Report on Operations—3 NZ Division, August 1943–December 1943
- 429 — Letter from Major-General Barrowclough to the Prime Minister1 — Report on Operations—3 New Zealand Division, 1 January 1944 to 30 June 1944
- Episodes & Studies Volume 1
- Episodes & Studies Volume 2
- Medical Services in New Zealand and The Pacific
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- I: Organisation of 3 NZ Division Medical Units in New Zealand and Functioning in New Caledonia
- II: Guadalcanal
- III: Landing on Vella Lavella
- IV: Treasury Islands
- V: Landing on Nissan Island
- VII: General Medical Survey – 2 NZEF (IP)
- VII: Medical Services in the Pacific
- General Index
- Pacific Kiwis: being the story of the service in the Pacific of the 30th Battalion, Third Division, Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force
- Contents
- Chapter Twelve — Guadalcanal Diary
- Chapter Thirteen — Landing at Vella Lavella
- Chapter Fourteen — Jungle Nights
- Chapter Fifteen — Vella Lavella Round About
- Chapter Sixteen — The Commando Raid
- Chapter Seventeen — Last Days in Vella Lavella
- Chapter Eighteen — Return to Green Island
- Chapter Twenty-One — Nissan Island Activities
- Chapter Twenty-Two — New Caledonia Again and Home
- Pacific Pioneers: the story of the engineers of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Pacific
- Pacific Saga: the personal chronicle of the 37th Battalion and its part in the Third Division's Campaign
- Royal New Zealand Air Force
- MOVE OF NO. 3 SQUADRON TO GUADALCANAL
- EARLY OPERATIONS
- INTERCEPTING THE TOKYO EXPRESS
- FINAL STAGES OF THE CAMPAIGN
- [section]
- FIGHTER OPERATIONS IN JUNE
- BOMBER ESCORT OPERATIONS
- NO. 16 SQUADRON
- COLLAPSE OF JAPANESE IN THE CENTRAL SOLOMONS
- ALLIED AIR OPERATIONS
- OPERATIONS BY NO. 3 SQUADRON
- [section]
- TREASURY LANDINGS
- LANDING ON BOUGAINVILLE
- [section]
- Index
- The Gunners: an intimate record of units of the 3rd New Zealand Divisional Artillery in the Pacific from 1940 until 1945
- Chapter Three — 17th Field Regiment
- Chapter Eight — 144th Independent Battery
- Chapter Nine — 53rd Anti-Tank Battery
- Chapter Eleven — 4th Survey Troop
- Chapter Twelve — Artillery Training Depot
- Chapter Fourteen — Awards and Casualties
- I — We are Born to Learn Something of Each Other
- II — We Learn of other People and Places
- III — We Begin to Suffer
- IV — Forward Base—Preparations at Guadalcanal
- V — On Vella Lavella
- III — New Hebrides and Guadalcanal
- The Home Front Volume I
- The New Zealand Dental Services
- The Pacific
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- CHAPTER 8 — The Coastwatchers
- V: Training for Combat
- I: Vella Lavella
- II: The Treasuries
- III: The Waiting Period
- IV: The Capture of Green Islands
- IV: The Japanese Move Back
- II: The Air Force Story
- II: Guerrillas in the Jungle
- III: Battalions Move to the Solomons
- Index
- The Royal New Zealand Navy
- War Economy
- War Surgery and Medicine
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Other Collections
The following collections may have holdings relevant to "Vella Lavella":
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
- Archives New Zealand, which has collections of maps, plans and posters; immigration passenger lists; and probate records.
- National Library of New Zealand, which has extensive collections of published material.
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has extensive holdings on the Auckland region and New Zealand military history.
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which has strong holdings in Tāonga Māori, biological holotypes and New Zealand art.
- nzhistory.net.nz, from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.