Science and the Pacific War : science and survival in the Pacific, 1939-1945 / edited by Roy M. MacLeod.

Dordrecht ; Boston ; London : Kluwer Academic, [2000], ©2000.

xiii, 320 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p.303-310) and index.

Combat science: OSRD's postscript in the Pacific / Roy Macleod -- The Smithsonian goes to war: the increase and diffusion of scientific knowledge in the Pacific / Pamela M. Henson -- Malaria in the Southwest Pacific in World War II / Mary Ellen Condon-Rall -- The machine in the Pacific: the diverse legacy of technology / Donald T. Fitzgerald -- The role of botanists during World War II in the Pacific theatre / Richard A. Howard -- Australian universities at war: the mobilisation of universities in the battle of the Pacific / Michelle Freeman -- Australia's mustard gas guinea pigs / Bridget Goodwin -- Technological transfer and the war in the Pacific / Ian D. Rae -- Managing the impact of war: Australian anthropology and the South West Pacific / Geoffrey G. Gray -- New Zealand scientists in action: the radio development laboratory and the Pacific War / Ross Galbreath -- Canadian scientists, CBW weapons and Japan, 1939-1945 / Donald Avery -- The American cover-up of Japanese human biological warfare experiments, 1945-1948 / Sheldon H. Harris -- The role of scientific intelligence in the Pacific War / Frank Cain -- The useful war: radar and the mobilization of science and industry in Japan / Morris F. Low.