NEW GUINEA CAMPAIGN

January 7, 1943. Australian forces attack Japanese positions near Buna. Members of the 2/12th Infantry Battalion advance as Stuart tanks from the 2/6th Armoured Regiment attack Japanese pillboxes. An upward-firing machine gun on the tank spray treetops to clear them of snipers. (Photographer: George Silk).

An Allied A-20 bomber attacks Japanse shipping during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, March, 1943.

Two dead Japanese soldiers in a water filled shell hole somewhere in New Guinea

The 'New Guinea campaign' (1942-45) was one of the major military campaigns of World War II. Fighting in the Australian mandated Territory of New Guinea (the north-eastern part of the island of New Guinea and surrounding islands) and Dutch New Guinea, between Allied and Japanese forces, commenced with the Japanese assault on Rabaul on January 23, 1942. Rabaul became the forward base for the Japanese campaigns in mainland New Guinea, including the pivotal Kokoda Track campaign of July 1942–January 1943. Fighting in some parts of New Guinea continued until the war ended, in August 1945. The 6th Army, under command of General MacArthur, consisted of the majority of Allied troops fighting. New Guinea was strategically important because it was the last major stronghold before Australia.

Major battles and sub-campaigns

Major battles and sub-campaigns

References

Books

★ MacArthur's Victory: The War In New Guinea 1943-1944, , Harry A., Gailey, Random House, 2004, ISBN

★ MacArthur's Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign, , Stephen R., Taafe, University Press Of Kansas, 2006, ISBN 0700608702

Web

★ Official Histories – Second World War Volume VI – The New Guinea Offensives (1st edition, 1961)1942-45 Australian official history.

★ Official Histories – Second World War Volume V – South–West Pacific Area – First Year: Kokoda to Wau (1st edition, 1959) 1942-45 Australian official history.

★ Report on Historical Sources on Australia and Japan at war in Papua and New Guinea, 1942-45

★ Japanese Operations in the Southwest Pacific Area, Volume II - Part I Translation of the official record by the Japanese Demobilization Bureaux detailing the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy's participation in the Southwest Pacific area of the Pacific War.

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