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Defending Whose Country?: Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War

I only ran across this book recently. Essentially, it's a case study of native peoples of color in service in a "white man's war." The three case studies are Aborigines in Northern Australia (mostly in the reserve area called Arnhem Land), native peo...

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Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press (December 1, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780803237933
ISBN-13: 978-0803237933
ASIN: 0803237936
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.3 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 4320651
Format: PDF ePub TXT book

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In the campaign against Japan in the Pacific during the Second World War, the armed forces of the United States, Australia, and the Australian colonies of Papua and New Guinea made use of indigenous peoples in new capacities. The United States had long used American Indians as soldiers and scouts in frontier conflicts and in wars with other nations. With the advent of the Navajo Code Talkers in the Pacific theater, Native servicemen were now bein...

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