New Guinea campaign

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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.

April 22, 1944. US LVTs (Landing Vehicles Tracked) in the foreground head for the invasion beaches at Humboldt Bay, Netherlands New Guinea, during the JHollandia landing as the cruisers USS Boise (firing tracer shells, right center) and USS Phoenix bombard the shore. (Photographer: Tech 4 Henry C. Manger.)

New Guinea campaign
1st Rabaul – Mo – Coral Sea – Kokoda Track – Milne Bay – Buna-Gona – Wau – Bismarck Sea – Salamaua-Lae – Cartwheel – Wewak raid – Finisterres – Huon Peninsula – Bougainville – Rabaul carrier raid – New Britain – Admiralties – Western New Guinea

South West Pacific theatre
Philippines 1941–42 – Dutch East Indies 1941–42 – Portuguese Timor – Australia – New Guinea – Philippines 1944–45 – Borneo 1945

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.

1 Major battles and sub-campaigns
2 References

[edit] Major battles and sub-campaigns

Operation Mo (1942)
Battle of the Coral Sea (1942
Kokoda Track campaign (1942)
Battle of Milne Bay (1942)
Battle of Buna-Gona (1942-43)
Battle of Wau (1943)
Battle of the Bismarck Sea (1943)
Operation Cartwheel (1943)
Salamaua-Lae campaign (1943)
- Battle of Nassau Bay
- First Battle of Mubo
- First Battle of Bobdubi
- Battle of Lababia Ridge
- Second Battle of Bobdubi
- Landing at Nassau Bay
- Second Battle of Mubo
- Battle of Roosevelt Ridge
- Battle of Mount Tambu
- Operation Postern
  - Landing at Lae
  - Landing at Nadzab
Finisterre Range campaign (1943-44; including a series of actions known as the Battle of Shaggy Ridge)
- Ramu Valley campaign
- Battle of Johns' Knoll-Trevor's Ridge
- Battle of The Pimple
- Battle of Cam's Saddle
- Operation Cutthroat
  - Battle of Faria Ridge
  - Battle of Prothero I and II
  - Battle of McCaughey's Knoll
  - Battle of Kankiryo Saddle
Huon Peninsula campaign (1943-44)
- Battle of Scarlet Beach
- Battle of Finschhafen
- Battle of Sattelberg
- Battle of Jivevaneng
- Battle of Sio
Bougainville campaign 1943-45
New Britain campaign 1943-45
Admiralty Islands campaign (1944)
- Battle of Los Negros
- Battle of Manus
Western New Guinea campaign (1944-45)
- Operations Reckless and Persecution
- Battle of Wakde
- Battle of Lone Tree Hill (1944)
- Battle of Morotai
- Battle of Biak
- Battle of Noemfoor
- Battle of Driniumor River
- Battle of Sansapor
- Aitape-Wewak campaign

[edit] References

[edit] Books

Gailey, Harry A. (2004). MacArthur's Victory: The War In New Guinea 1943-1944. New York: Random House. ISBN.
Taafe, Stephen R. (2006). MacArthur's Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign. Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A.: University Press Of Kansas. ISBN 0700608702.