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Defending Whose Country?: Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War

Defending Whose Country?: Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War

Riseman, Noah

Hardcover

Australia & OceaniaNative American HistoryWorld War II

ISBN10: 0803237936
ISBN13: 9780803237933
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: Dec 1 2012
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.41
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 being employed for contributions that were unique to their Native cultures. In contrast, Australia, Papua, and New Guinea had long attempted to keep indigenous peoples out of the armed forces altogether. With the threat of Japanese invasion, however, they began to bring indigenous peoples into the military as guerilla patrollers, coastwatchers, and regular soldiers.

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