LibGuides: HIS 12: Impact of the Pacific War on civilians in occupied territories: Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands

Captured civilians from across New Guinea and the Solomon Islands were then imprisoned by the Japanese away from Rabaul, in Ramale. (SBS)

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea experiences of the Pacific War (AWM)
Angels and victims: the people of New Guinea in World War II
Remembering the war in New Guinea: Japanese attitudes to indigenous people.
Remember the Pacific's people (The Conversation)
Go for broke: the New Guinea campaign.
New Guinea during WWII
Kokoda track PNG
Forgotten story of civilian prisoners of war
Image. Ramale mission (AWM)
Papua new Guinea and the World Wars (State Library NSW)

Solomon Islands

World War II in the Solomons

The following film details the ways in which weapons and explosives remain in landscapes long after the Pacific War concluded. Guadalcanal was used as an airbase by the US Navy.