Landing at Jacquinot Bay

Part of World War II, Pacific War

Date	4 November 1944
Location	Jacquinot Bay, New Britain, Territory of New Guinea
Result	Allied victory

Belligerents

Australia

Empire of Japan

Commanders and leaders

Ray Sandover

New Britain campaign

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The Landing at Jacquinot Bay was an Allied amphibious landing at Jacquinot Bay during the New Britain Campaign of World War II on 4 September 1944.^[1]

Landing

The first echelon, consisting of the 14th/32nd Battalion and a company of the 1st New Guinea Infantry Battalion, was transported by two transports under the escort of the Royal Australian Navy's (RAN) destroyer HMAS Vendetta, frigate Barcoo and sloop Swan.^[2] The landing was unopposed by Imperial Japanese forces.

After covering the landing force for two days, HMAS Vendetta, Barcoo and Swan proceeded to Wide Bay and bombarded Japanese positions around the bay. The RAN motor launches ML 802 and ML 827 stayed in the area with landing craft of a company of the United States Army's 594th Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment.^[3]

Citations

^ Dennis et al (2008), p. 390.
^ Long (1963), p. 250.
^ Long (1963), p. 250.

References

Dennis, Peter; et al (2008). The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-551784-2.
Long, Gavin (1963). The Final Campaigns. Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Series 1 – Army. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/second_world_war/volume.asp?levelID=67909.