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• 1Origins
• 2Formation
• 3General Headquarters
• 4Allied Land Forces
• 5Allied Air Forces
• 6Allied Naval Forces
• 7U.S. Army Services of Supply
• 8Intelligence
• 9Legacy
• 10Footnotes
• 11Notes
• 12References
• 13Further reading

From Cape Kami in the Luichow Peninsula around the coast of the Tonkin Gulf, Indo-China, Thailand, and Malaya to Singapore: from Singapore south to the north coast of Sumatra, thence round the east coast of Sumatra (leaving the Sunda Strait to the eastward of the line) to a point on the coast of Sumatra at Longitude 104° East, thence south to Latitude 08° South, thence southeasterly towards Onslow, Australia, and on reaching Longitude 110° East, due south along that meridian. ... The north and east boundaries... : From Cape Kami...south to Latitude 20° North; thence east to Longitude 130° East; thence south to the Equator; thence east to Longitude 165° East; south to Latitude 10° South; southwesterly to Latitude 17° South, Longitude 160° East; thence south.^[16]

1. ^ "Southwest Pacific Area in American English became "South West Pacific Area" in Australian English. Due to the activities of Australian typists, the latter became more widely used.

1. ^ Hasluck 1970, p. 49.
2. ^ Morton 1962, pp. 240–242.
3. ^ Morton 1993, pp. 145–148.
4. ^ Jump up to:^{a b c d} Masterson 1949, pp. 4–5.
5. ^ Morton 1962, pp. 151–152.
6. ^ Casey 1953, pp. 19–20.
7. ^ Mayo 1991, pp. 40.
8. ^ Leighton & Coakley 1995, p. 170.
9. ^ Mayo 1991, pp. 40–41.
10. ^ Jump up to:^{a b} Morton 1962, pp. 242–245.
11. ^ Gwyer & Butler 1964, p. 437.
12. ^ Hasluck 1970, pp. 227–228.
13. ^ Morton 1962, p. 246.
14. ^ Morton 1962, pp. 244–246.
15. ^ Morton 1962, pp. 244–249.
16. ^ Hayes 1982, p. 765.
17. ^ Jump up to:^{a b c d e f g} Milner 1957, p. 22.
18. ^ Jump up to:^{a b} Hasluck 1970, p. 113.
19. ^ Horner 1982, p. 309.
20. ^ Hasluck 1970, p. 112.
21. ^ Hasluck 1970, p. 60.
22. ^ Jump up to:^{a b} Hasluck 1970, p. 115.
23. ^ Morton 1962, pp. 264–268.
24. ^ Jump up to:^{a b} Horner 1982, pp. 206–207.
25. ^ Jump up to:^{a b} Milner 1957, p. 48.
26. ^ Horner 1982, p. 342.
27. ^ Horner 1982, p. 348.
28. ^ James 1975, p. 667.
29. ^ Jump up to:^{a b} Casey 1953, p. 174.
30. ^ Jump up to:^{a b c d} Casey 1953, p. 311.
31. ^ McCarthy 1959, pp. 24–26.
32. ^ Dexter 1961, p. 227.
33. ^ Long 1963, p. 19.
34. ^ Long 1963, p. 31.
35. ^ McCarthy 1959, p. 174.
36. ^ Long 1963, p. 593.
37. ^ Jump up to:^{a b} Long 1963, pp. 24, 47.
38. ^ Long 1963, pp. 46–47.
39. ^ McCarthy 1959, pp. 74, 159.
40. ^ McCarthy 1959, p. 236.
41. ^ Jump up to:^{a b} Dexter 1961, p. 221.
42. ^ Long 1963, pp. 594–595.
43. ^ Horner 1982, pp. 309–310.
44. ^ GHQ Operations Instructions No. 67, 9 September 1944, Australian War Memorial: Blamey Papers, 3DRL 6643 3/102
45. ^ Horner 1982, p. 207.
46. ^ Jump up to:^{a b} Horner 1982, pp. 350–353.
47. ^ McAulay 1991, pp. 26–27.
48. ^ Griffith 1998, p. 63.
49. ^ Rogers 1990, pp. 276–277.
50. ^ Horner 1982, pp. 207, 353.
51. ^ Wolk 1987, p. 165.
52. ^ Wolk 1988, p. 92.
53. ^ Wolk 1987, pp. 168–169.
54. ^ Kenney 1949, p. 11.
55. ^ Barr 1997, p. 20.
56. ^ Kenney 1949, p. 100.
57. ^ Kenney 1949, p. 176.
58. ^ Kenney 1949, pp. 216–217.
59. ^ Rodman 2005, p. 77.
60. ^ Griffith 1998, pp. 174–175.
61. ^ Jump up to:^{a b} Stephens 2001, pp. 168–170.
62. ^ Kenney 1949, pp. 537–538.
63. ^ Kenney 1949, p. 519.
64. ^ Gill 1957, p. 520.
65. ^ Morton 1962, p. 201.
66. ^ Gill 1957, pp. 520–521.
67. ^ Gill 1968, p. 4.
68. ^ Gill 1968, p. 34.
69. ^ Gill 1968, p. 113.
70. ^ Morton 1962, pp. 245—246.
71. ^ Gill 1968, p. 236.
72. ^ Wheeler 1994, pp. 346–349.
73. ^ Jump up to:^{a b c} Gill 1968, p. 277.
74. ^ Morison 1950, p. 131.
75. ^ Horner 1982, pp. 364–366.
76. ^ Gill 1968, pp. 380, 441.
77. ^ Gill 1968, p. 512.
78. ^ Wheeler 1994, pp. 343–344.
79. ^ Gill 1968, pp. 494–496.
80. ^ Wheeler 1994, pp. 404–406.
81. ^ Casey 1953, pp. 250–251.
82. ^ Jump up to:^{a b} Casey 1953, p. 37.
83. ^ Bykovsky & Larson 1957, p. 428.
84. ^ Casey 1953, pp. 66–67.
85. ^ Jump up to:^{a b} Casey 1953, p. 120.
86. ^ Leighton & Coakley 1995, pp. 195–196.
87. ^ Masterson 1949, pp. vi–ix, 242.
88. ^ Leighton & Coakley 1995, pp. 390–392.
89. ^ Masterson 1949, pp. 317–318.
90. ^ Masterson 1949, pp. 319–318.
91. ^ Masterson 1949, pp. 321–324.
92. ^ Masterson 1949, p. 339.
93. ^ Masterson 1949, pp. Appendix 49, p. 1.
94. ^ Masterson 1949, pp. 368–380.
95. ^ Grover 1987, p. 5.
96. ^ Casey 1953, p. 184.
97. ^ Casey 1953, pp. 181–182.
98. ^ Horner 1982, pp. 226–230.
99. ^ Horner 1982, pp. 237–242.
100. ^ Horner 1982, p. 246.
101. ^ Horner 2005, pp. 123–124.

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