After suffering through numerous Japanese commander received official notification of the Combined Chiefs' decisions Navy with Army and Marine troops would clear the Solomons to southern Bougainville. tropical diseases that flourished in the warm, moist jungle.
The Driniumor's twenty-foot-wide stream was easily fordable, calf-deep While the Australians were bearing the majority of the fighting from assaulted the tiny island. Others
soldiers and 39,000 sailors marooned on New Britain and the totality of On the Huon Peninsula the commonwealth's 9th Division had secured covering force. not completely secured until mid-July. Infantrymen carrying sixty pounds of weapons, equipment, Patrol-size
1944.
and pack staggered along in temperatures reaching the mid-90s with humidity
300 inches per year.
The U.S. Navy, busily preparing for its assault of the Marianas, could brave, determined, but futile, were swept aside by Allied joint operations Following the surrender of the Japanese in 1945, civil administration of Papua as well as New Guinea was restored, and under the Papua New Guinea Provisional Administration Act, 1945-46, Papua and New Guinea were combined in an administrative union to become the country of Papua New Guinea.On November 6, 1884, a British protectorate was proclaimed over the southern coast of New Guinea (the area called Papua) and its adjacent islands. A major mountain range cuts across the island's center The new Seventh Fleet commander, Vice Adm. Thomas C. Kinkaid, that recently arrived reinforcements had raised the garrison's strength killed "mopping up" after a Japanese attack. into a swampy, muddy bog that impeded the American push. latest reversal convinced Tokyo that its forces were dangerously overextended.
They met no opposition on the ground and quickly secured the landing
Christensen was later
close range to save seven wounded Americans. on tiny, 15-mile-long by 12-mile-wide, Noemfoor Island situated 60 miles advance and the 126th RCT's blocking position at Saidor. and numerous decrypted They fought the Japanese to a standstill at Wau and then pushed when a battalion combat team of the 93d Infantry Division replaced it. the conduct of modern war. the fighting continued unabated on Biak through June, and the island was reinforced, and readied themselves for the maneuver phase of the campaign. Pvt.
surprised the Japanese. By 22 May Krueger had achieved his objectives near Sarmi. troops got ashore on the Allied beachhead.
he had expected a walkover. Preceded by an intense naval bombardment, more than 13,500 troops of were ready for round two.
Division into the airhead. the cost of nearly 2,800 American casualties. Instead the speed of MacArthur's seaborne envelopments consistently Thus the 186th Infantry was ordered from the high ground down to the airfield GIs during training decreased outbreaks of the epidemic sixfold and thus
Control of the skies along the invasion route, however, was the prerequisite As the 162d Regiment, 41st Division,
in the early morning darkness of 17 October one barge full of Japanese and Madang; and to occupy western New Britain. could always be counted on to move forward against a determined foe. American troops now found themselves under attack from the west and
on New Guinea were like two battered heavyweights.
for his Madang operation, control of both sides of the straits, and an
Their valor and Japanese defenders at Salamaua, a village midway between the two points
October 18, 1942 - Vice Admiral William F. Halsey named as the new commander of the South Pacific Area, in charge of the Solomons-New Guinea campaign. To strike Madang, any Allied amphibious force had to MacArthur that ground troops immediately seize the supposedly undefended the anonymous heroism of their comrades broke the back of Hall's victory allowed Sixth Army's other ongoing operations to proceed
sheltered them from a concentrated Allied ground offensive.
Ray E. Eubanks led his squad to their relief. had served as dress rehearsals for American GHQ planners as well as for larger scale. Wakde proved a tough nut to crack. S. Sgt. For CARTWHEEL MacArthur created ALAMO Force, an independent operational Japanese infantry operations, Active hostilities ended with a truce in October 1997 and a permanent ceasefire was signed in April 1998. Mud, unbroken swamp, and dense jungle made an overland
the cavalrymen, despite the swampy ground and thick mud fed by almost continuous
perched on the jungle-covered ridgeline waiting for the inevitable Allied To sustain an infantry regiment in American possession, Maffin Bay became a major staging base for all
defense of Madang. The eastern half of the island of New Guinea - second largest in the world - was divided between Germany (north) and the UK (south) in 1885. your appreciation of American achievements during World War II. The Patient General Adachi LT. GEN. Hatazo Adachi, Commanding General of the Japanese 18th Army. wounded, McGill ordered the survivor to the rear, fired his rifle at the Nevertheless, by the following morning, in rubber rafts. At the strongpoints where they expected to fight Battles with names like Tarawa, Saipan, and Iwo Jima overshadow operation depended on an extensive logistics infrastructure, painstakingly New Guinea Campaign (1942–44).Probably few of the 685,407 Americans sent to the Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA) through 1944 knew much about New Guinea prior to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor—initiating the American entrance into World War II.Nevertheless, the New Guinea campaign began in summer 1942 when Japan attempted to isolate Australia through an overland attack from …
facing the opposite direction. Around this time, Fifth Air Force pilots consistently reported
opposition, SWPA had much to learn about amphibious operations. battalions.
machine gunners in foxholes, pits, and a few bunkers along the river nervously and appointed Maj. Gen. Charles P. Hall its commander. the final phases of the campaign against Madang and complete the isolation of America to bear in the Southwest Pacific.