New Guinea
The Battle for Papua and New Guinea

Related: Army, Navy, and Marine Corps Doctrine for amphibious operations.

(Links to additional resources)

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Contents

General

• Building the Navy's Bases in World War II: Chapter 26-- Bases in the Southwest Pacific

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Papua:

• UNITED STATES STRATEGIC BOMBING SURVEY
  Campaigns of the Pacific War:
  The New Guinea Campaign
• U.S. ARMY IN WORLD WAR II--THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC
  Victory in Papua, Samuel Milner
• U.S. ARMY CAMPAIGNS OF WORLD WAr II
  Papua: 23 July 1942-23 January 1943
• AMERICAN FORCES IN ACTION
  Papuan Campaign: The Buna-Sanananda Operation (16 November 1942--23 January 1943)

• Air Action in the Papuan Campaign, 21 July 1942 to 23 January 1943

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New Guinea:

• UNITED STATES STRATEGIC BOMBING SURVEY
  Campaigns of the Pacific War:
  The New Guinea Campaign

• U.S. ARMY IN WORLD WAR II--THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC
  • CARTWHEEL: The Reduction of Rabaul
  • The Approach to the Philippines
• U.S. ARMY CAMPAIGNS OF WORLD WAR II
  New Guinea: 24 January 1943--31 December 1944
• Defending the Driniumor: Covering Force Operations in New Guinea, 1944, Dr. Edward J. Drea [Leavenworth Papers No. 9]

• The Fifth Air Force in the Huon Peninsula Campaign, January to October 1943
• The Fifth Air Force in the Huon Peninsula Campaign, October 1943 to February 1944

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Additional Resources
World War II DVDs from The History Channel The Alamo Scouts A Working Bibliography of MHI Sources, by Edward J. Drea Defending the Drinmuor: Covering Force Operations in New Guinea, 1944 Ft. Leavenworth, KS: CGSF, 1984. 182 p. D767.95D83.1984

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