Author: BAKKER, H.TH.,
Title: De K.P.M. in Oorlogstijd. Een overzicht van de verrichtingen van de K.P.M. en haar Personeel gedurende de Wereldoorlog 1939-1945.
Description: Amsterdam, Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij, 1950. large 8°., original cloth, title in bold gilt type on front boards, repeated on spine with company's logo in gilt. 330pp. coloured fold. frontispiece (commemmorative stained-glass windows in Djakarta office), ills. on 10 plates after phtographs and paintings, mainly illustrating ships of company's fleet, col. maps on endpapers, of which 1 with legenda, extensive name-lists of personnel killed in action, list of ships lost, decorated men, concise index, glossary of abbreviations used Commemmorates War-achievements of the Royal Steam Packet Navigation Company (K.P.M.), during the second world war, operating mainly in the Pacific war-zone. Very good copy.

Keywords: k.p.m. royal packet navigation company pacific war commemmoration achievements maritime history japan history colonialism indonesia southeast asia