The New Guinea campaign of the Pacific War lasted from January 1942 until the end of the war in August 1945. During the initial phase in early 1942, the...
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The Western New Guinea campaign was a series of actions in the New Guinea campaign of World War II. Dutch East Indies KNIL, United States and Australian...
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nation was the site of fierce fighting during the New Guinea campaign of World War II. Papua New Guinea became an independent Commonwealth realm in 1975...
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control by the Japanese during the New Guinea campaign of World War II when Japanese forces started an invasion of New Guinea, primarily the northern part of...
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island of New Britain, became a major Japanese base (see New Guinea campaign). After World War II, the territories of Papua and New Guinea were combined...
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positions, which were then bypassed. The Solomon Islands campaign then converged with the New Guinea campaign. On December 7, 1941, after failing to resolve a...
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Territory of Papua and New Guinea, officially the Administrative Union of the Territory of Papua and the Territory of New Guinea, was established by an...
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The prehistory of Papua New Guinea can be traced to about 50,000–60,000 years ago, when people first migrated towards the Australian continent. The written...
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Leonard Siffleet (category Military personnel from New South Wales)
Services Reconnaissance Department, Siffleet was on a mission in Papua New Guinea when he and two Ambonese companions were captured by partisan tribesmen...
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New Guinea (Tok Pisin: Niugini; Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Indonesian: Papua, fossilized Nugini, or historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island...
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Western New Guinea, also known as Papua, Indonesian New Guinea, and Indonesian Papua, is the western half of the island of New Guinea, formerly Dutch...
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World War II, operating on supply missions in the New Guinea campaign and the Solomon Islands campaign, and conducting war patrols in the Solomons, off...
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New Guinea campaign Guadalcanal: 7 August 1942 – 21 February 1943, the Guadalcanal campaign New Guinea: 24 January 1943 – 31 December 1944, the New Guinea...
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Daniel E. Barbey (section New Guinea campaign)
Admiral Barbey contributed immeasurably to the success of the campaigns in New Britain, New Guinea and the Admiralties and his brilliant administration of exacting...
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I Corps (United States) (section New Guinea Campaign)
32nd Divisions, engaged in the defense of British New Guinea, the beginning of the New Guinea campaign. Though the Japanese advanced rapidly at first, a...
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The cuisine of Papua New Guinea are the traditional varied foods found in the eastern part of the New Guinea island. Approximately 80% of the population...
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Japanese. The campaign was followed by other Allied offensives in the Pacific, most notably: the Solomon Islands campaign, New Guinea campaign, the Gilbert...
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Douglas MacArthur (category New York (state) Republicans)
From Australia, he commanded the New Guinea campaign, and in October 1944 returned to the Philippines and led the campaign which liberated the islands. In...
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Bill Newton (section New Guinea campaign)
armed forces. He was honoured for his actions as a bomber pilot in Papua New Guinea during March 1943 when, despite intense anti-aircraft fire, he pressed...
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The Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF) is the military organisation responsible for the defence of Papua New Guinea. It originated from the Australian...
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Leslie Morshead (category Deaths from cancer in New South Wales)
command II Corps, which he led during the New Guinea campaign. In 1945, he commanded I Corps in the Borneo campaign. Morshead was born on 18 September 1889...
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USS Mobile (CL-63) (section New Guinea campaign)
Battle of Eniwetok (the last phase of the Marshalls campaign) and Allied operations in New Guinea, to the south. The carriers struck the island on 16...
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Eighteenth Army (Japan) (section New Guinea campaign)
specific task of opposing landings by Allied forces in Japanese-occupied New Guinea.[citation needed] Upon establishment, it was made up of three divisions:...
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Dutch New Guinea or Netherlands New Guinea (Dutch: Nederlands-Nieuw-Guinea, Indonesian: Nugini Belanda) was the western half of the island of New Guinea that...
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German New Guinea (German: Deutsch-Neuguinea) consisted of the northeastern part of the island of New Guinea and several nearby island groups and was...
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Robert L. Eichelberger (section New Guinea Campaign)
decided in September that the 32nd Infantry Division should proceed to New Guinea first, as Camp Cable was inferior to the 41st Infantry Division's camp...
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Military history of the United States during World War II (section Solomon Islands and New Guinea Campaign)
further events leading to the Guadalcanal Campaign. This campaign also converged with the New Guinea campaign. In May 1942, the United States fleet engaged...
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Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (section New Guinea)
fellow aces Saburō Sakai and Toshio Ōta and would see action in the New Guinea campaign as well as in the aerial battles over Guadalcanal and over the Solomon...
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Japanese submarine I-177 (section New Guinea campaign)
Australia, taking part in the New Guinea campaign, operating in the North Pacific, and participating in the Palau campaign before she was sunk by the destroyer...
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Walter Krueger (category S-bef: 'before' parameter begins with the word 'new')
Japan. New York: Free Press. ISBN 0-02-930360-5. OCLC 10998802. Taafe, Stephen R. (1998). MacArthur's Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign. Lawrence:...
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