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Binding: Hardcover

Pages: 304

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Editor's Choice Award Winner

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See also more books from:
   Bruce Gamble

See also more books on the same topic(s):
   Australia, New Guinea, and the Bismarcks operations, 1942-1945
   Australia: POWs and internees, escapes and rescues
   Japanese landings in New Guinea and the Bismarcks, 1942
   Prisoners of the Japanese

See also references to this book:
   Reference in news archive July 2006
   Reference in news archive November 2006
   Reference in news archive December 2006
   Reference in book review/survey January 2007
   Reference in book review/survey January 2008
   Reference in book review/survey June 2010
   Reference in news archive January 2013

Notes from Stone & Stone

Bruce Gamble doesn't step up to the plate very often, but it seems like he always hits a homerun. A thoughtful, finely crafted, highly evocative book about the loss of Rabaul and its defenders.

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Feedback from John L May on Tuesday, 8 April 2008

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Re "morituri vos salutamus", I was with Wing Cmdr Lerew and PO Lempiere after burial of RAAF pilots at Rabaul and helped with message sent by Lerew. Do not remember who first mentioned gladiators but it was I who composed the Latin sentence and helped Lempriere to transmit the massage for Lerew. I had studied Latin for three years at University. For further evidence see Canberra Times,May 29, 1982 and Jan 18, 1992, articles by Frank Cranston.

Feedback from John L May, on Tuesday, 8 April 2008

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I was chaplain to Lark Force, Rabaul.Re "morituri vos salutamus", I was with Wing Cmdr Lerew and Flt Lt Lempriere after burial of RAAF pilots at Rabaul and helped with message sent by Lerew. Do not remember who first mentioned gladiators but it was I who composed the Latin sentence and helped Lempriere to transmit the massage for Lerew. I had studied Latin for three years at University. For further evidence see Canberra Times,May 29, 1982 and Jan 18, 1992, articles by Frank Cranston. I have copy of original message.

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