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• 28 Māori Battalion
  History of the Battalion.
  
  
• 28th Māori Battalion
  Includes association news and newsletters and historical resources about the battalion, the campaigns and the soldiers; along with sound and video clips and photographs.
  
  
• Air Force Museum of New Zealand
  Showcases selected items from the collections of the Air Force Museum of New Zealand in Christchurch. Includes information about events at the museum, online exhibitions, education programmes, and an online shop.
  
  
• Anti-Bases Campaign
  Campaign for the closure of foreign military and intelligence installations in New Zealand.
  
  
• Anzac.govt.nz : a guide to Anzac Day for New Zealanders
  ANZAC Day history, traditions and rituals. Includes Gallipoli guide and resources for organising a community commemoration.
  
  
• ANZUK
  A brief history of the Australian, New Zealand and United Kingdom Force serving in Singapore and Malaysia 1970-1971.
  
  
• Capital defence : Wellington's built military heritage
  Provides information about military structures which have disappeared over the years, and those that still remain. Includes photo gallery, maps, and book reviews.
  
  
• Cenotaph database
  Search for biographical and service details for over 115,000 New Zealand service men and women from the 19th century till today, especially from World War One and World War Two. Includes photos and images of rolls.
  
  
• Classic Fighters Marlborough : Omaka Aerodrome, Blenheim, New Zealand
  Information about the airshow for visitors. Includes photo gallery of fighters and video clips.
  
  
• College of Humanities and Social Sciences
  Massey University's College of Humanities and Social Sciences constituent schools, degrees offered, programmes available and teaching methods. Information on various degree options and places of study.
  
  
• CSS : Centre for Strategic Studies = Te Pōkapu Take Rautaki Aotearoa
  An independent national think-tank, founded in 1993 with the task of sustaining levels of awareness and understanding within New Zealand about the external environment in which the nation must operate in the 21st Century. In addition to a list of books for sale, the site provides online publications, including working papers, discussion papers, strategic briefing papers, newsletters, seminars and reports and contributions. There is a link to the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific.
  
  
• EVSA website : : representing Vietnam veterans and their families
  Site updates information about the negotiations with the New Zealand government about welfare support for Vietnam veterans and their families, also includes information about pensions.
  
  
• Government Communications Security Bureau
  Basic information about the GCSB, an intelligence and security agency which provides foreign intelligence information and protects government classified or sensitive information.
  
  
• H.M.N.Z.S Taranaki : 28 March 1961- 18 June 1982
  Website dedicated to those who served on the "Tiddly T", H.M.N.Z.S. Taranaki, in the Royal New Zealand Navy, from her commissioning in 1961 to her decommissioning in 1982. Includes the ship's specifications, history, operational tasks, commanding officers, details of reunions and events, and a photo gallery.
  
  
• H.R.S. World War II Historical Re-enactment Society (N.Z.) Inc.
  Society members put on displays, in period costume, entertaining and educating the public about World War II. Includes issues of the quarterly newsletter Relive history.
  
  
• Kiwis in armour : [web site] / research by Jeff Plowman
  Documents the history of armoured fighting vehicles in New Zealand and those used operationally in various campaigns by New Zealanders.
  
  
• Leaders of Anzacs : officers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps died at Gallipoli, 1915
  Recorded in these pages are the names of 492 officers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) known or believed to have died as the result of their service on the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, in 1915.
  
  
• Long Range Desert Group Preservation Society
  LRDG Preservation Society site provides information about the unit, trooper biography, equipment and tactics used, WWII LRDG history, reference material, newsletter, guest book, photogallery and truck photos.
  
  
• Medals awarded to New Zealand military personnel
  New Zealand Defence Force site, provides information about the more common medals awarded to New Zealand military personnel since the 1840s to the present.
  
  
• Memorials Register
  Information about the Memorials Register, an ongoing project to document memorials throughout New Zealand. Includes map and searchable register, with the facility to add community information.
  
  
• National Army Museum = Te Mata Toa
  About the museum in Waioru, New Zealand and its exhibits. Includes information about New Zealanders at war information for children and teachers.
  
  
• National War Memorial = Te Maharatanga Pakanga o te Motu
  New Zealand's national memorial in Wellington. Includes its history, opening hours and sound files from the Carillon. Section about the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior.
  
  
• Navy : Te Taua Moana o Aotearoa
  The RNZN site includes career opportunities, a photo gallery, online publications, and details of the ships that make up the fleet.
  
  
• Navy Museum = Te Whare Taonga o te Taua Moana o Aotearoa
  Provides information about past and present exhibitions in the Auckland Museum. Includes an overview of the museum collections, RNZN history, history and governance of the Museum as well as an education section and online newsletter and magazine.
  
  
• New Zealand Cadet Forces
  Information about the New Zealand Cadet Forces (NZCF), a youth leadership training organisation created from the partnership between the New Zealand Defence Force and the community. Includes charter, joining information, news, events, and photos.
  
  
• New Zealand Campaign Against Landmines : CALM
  About the campaign with photographs and newsletter, with archived copies.
  
  
• New Zealand Defence Force
  About the NZDF. Includes documents, information about operations and medals, links to Navy, Army and Air Force sites and news.
  
  
• New Zealand history online = Ngā kōrero aipurangi o Aotearoa
  Information and resources produced by the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Features broad categories in New Zealand history: Culture and society, Politics and government, War and society. Also includes material for students and teachers linked to the school curriculum; instruction and advice for historical research and a calendar of New Zealand history.
  
  
• New Zealand Military Historical Society
  About the society, with annual report, discussion forum and details of their literary award.
  
  
• New Zealand Ministry of Defence = Manatū Kaupapa Waonga
  The Ministry's task is to identify possible risks to New Zealand's security, its overseas trade and investment and the forces and equipment the nation will need to protect these vital interests. The web site contains information about the Ministry of Defence as an organisation, and the key personnel involved; official press releases and speeches & press release archives; information on new tenders and current acquisition projects; a collection of documents for public information; links to other defence-related websites; information about accessing New Zealand Defence records and medals information.
  
  
• New Zealand Vietnam veterans organisations
  Includes New Zealand "Roll of Honour", which lists NZ services personnel and civilians who were killed while serving in Vietnam. Also includes contact information for organisations that support Vietnam veterans.
  
  
• New Zealand Warbirds Association : [web site] : preserving service aircraft in full flying condition for the enjoyment and education of present and future generations of New Zealanders
  Contains details on historic and military aircraft; and information on the Visitor Centre, visitor activities, membership, and upcoming events. Includes news.
  
  
• New Zealand Wars = Nga Pakanga Whenua o Mua
  Information and materials dealing with the New Zealand Wars. Includes bibliography.
  
  
• Ngā Toa
  Ngā Toa meaning "Many Warriors" in the Māori language is a project dedicated to preserving the oral histories of New Zealand's last remaining World War II veterans. Contains over 200 interviews which have been compiled in the Ngā Toa video archive by Patrick Bronte.
  
  
• Nicky Hager : : author and investigative journalist
  The New Zealand author's site has his writing, including articles, speeches, books and reviews, on topics such as the military, intelligence agencies, public relations and the unseen side of politics. Includes biography. Subjects seachable by topic or format.
  
  
• NZ Army = Ngāti Tumatauenga
  Information about the Army; vision for the future; operations; careers in the Army; the territorial (part-time) force; and the Army Museum, Waiouru.
  
  
• NZ War Graves Project
  Details the project to create virtual war cemeteries and a digital roll of honour for New Zealand's war dead, who are buried in and outside of New Zealand.
  
  
• Official history of New Zealand in the Second World War
  Online version of 'Official history of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-1945', prepared under the supervision of the War History Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs. Includes accounts of battalions, campaigns, prisoners of war and field medicine. Includes photographs and maps. Full text in HTML and LIT formats. Project managed by Victoria University of Wellington's New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (NZETC).
  
  
• Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre
  Centre in Blenheim, N.Z. displays historic aircraft. Site has information about planes and exhibitions and the associated Omaka airshow.
  
  
• Peace researcher : the official journal of the Anti-Bases Campaign
  Peace Researcher is published by the Anti-Bases Campaign of Christchurch. It covers a range of peace issues with emphasis on foreign military bases and intelligence topics. The site also gives subscription details for the print edition.
  
  
• RNZN Communicators' Association : [web site]
  About the association and its services. Includes information on membership, news, medals, photo gallery, and history of the RNZN.
  
  
• Royal New Zealand Air Force
  The RNZAF site includes careers information, details of the types of aircraft in the Force, a picture gallery, videos, and downloadable files.
  
  
• Royal New Zealand Artillery Association : [web site]
  Royal New Zealand Artillery Association site includes history, recollections and opinions from New Zealand's professional gunners, retired and serving. The equipment, daily life, customs and traditions, organisational structures, and images of artillery from the 19th century to the present during war, peacekeeping and peacetime.
  
  
• Royal New Zealand Naval Association Inc.
  The Association for all serving or who have served in Her Majesty's Royal Navies. History of the association. Current news and events. Information on Sea Cadet Corps. Links to individual ship and branch associations.
  
  
• Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association Inc.
  RSA promotes the remembrance and welfare of returned servicemen.
  
  
• SinkF69
  SinkF69 Charitable Trust formed for the acquisition of the retired HMNZS Wellington, a Leander class frigate, to utilise the vessel to create an artificial marine reef and recreational diver attraction. Includes information about the project as well as the history of the frigate and technical specifications. Also Reefing Programme and information about New Zealand shipwrecks accompanied by map.
  
  
• Special Air Service : New Zealand Army special forces
  Leon (Junior) Harrison's New Zealand SAS page.
  
  
• The punji pit : poems of the New Zealanders in the Vietnam War / by John A. Moller
  A selection of poems from: The punji pit, by John A. Moller, Tauranga, N.Z. : Tauranga Moana Press, 1986. The site also has a roll of hounour of New Zealanders who fell in Vietnam and links to sites on the Vietnam War and New Zealand military history.
  
  
• Under a bomber's moon
  Excerpts from the book of the same name by Stephen Harris; extracts from Colwyn Jones' journals and letters; a German pilot's reminiscences; World War II historical information; photo gallery; and video clips.
  
  
• Veterans' Affairs New Zealand
  Website about policies and services for war veterans.
  
  
• Victor Company, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment, Vietnam 1967 : the originals
  Memoir of the service of the soldiers of the Victor Company. Contains Roll of Honour, nominal roll, soldiers' stories and memories, and information on the company's deployment and operations in Vietnam.
  
  
• VietnamWar.govt.nz : memories of New Zealand and the Vietnam War
  Vietnam War Oral History Project site has a veterans' roll, roll of honour, interviews, photographs and sound and video files. Includes material for teachers and students with activities and teaching strategies to explore the experiences of New Zealanders and the Vietnam War.
  
  
• WaiMilHist
  The electronic journal of military history within the History Department at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
  
  
• Warbirds Over Wanaka
  Wanaka International airshow held biannualy. Contains information about current and past shows.
  
  
• Wings Over Wairarapa
  Website of WoW, a biennial airshow. Contains ticket and programme information, aircraft details, a history of the Hood Aerodrome, photos, videos, news and updates about the event.
  
  
• Wright's Hill Fortress Restoration Society Inc.
  Information about the Wright's Hill Fortress (a long range coastal battery), its history and restoration. Includes photo album and list of open days.