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Thread1/9Japanese "Operation R":January 14th 1942: A Japanese brigade group named South Seas Force, "Nankai Shitai" (Major General Tomitaro Horii) left Truk tasked with capturing Kavieng, New Ireland, and #Rabaul, 1,000k
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THREADOfficial War Diaries are usually dry affairs.One War Diary is different in that it praises a soldier from a different army. In January 1943 the 55th Battery, 2/5th Royal Australian
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ThreadChristmas 1942. Brisbane Australia.A unique situation: Three American Brigadier Generals recuperate from wounds inflicted within a 3-week period in the same small area of action - Buna, Papua, SWPA.These were
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Thread1/121909: a Prussian boy called Hermann Johann Friedrich Bottcher was born in Landsberg, NE Germany.By 1918 he was orphaned; his soldier father killed in the Great War, and his mother
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Dec 25, 1942:George Silk’s iconic photograph of local Orokaiva villager Raphael Oimbari escorting Pte George Whittington during the battle for Buna Station.Silk had returned from Libya after being captured for
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Decem. 2 1856:The epic Battle of Ndondakusuka was fought on the Zulu bank of the Tugela River, South Africa.It was one of the bloodiest battles ever fought in Africa from
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ThreadOct-Nov. 1942:There was a strange matrix occurring in Papua between soldiers of US 32nd Infantry Division (National Guardsmen from small towns around Green Bay, #Wisconsin and Grand Rapids, #Michigan) and
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Oivi-Gorari1/5Nov 4-11,1942: For the first time Japanese fighting troops in Papua were together on one battlefield.The Nankai Shitai mustered 2800 men from the 41 & 144 Regts, plus engineers &
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THREAD1/8Paul YAUWIGA was a highly regarded New Guinea Police Sergeant from East Sepik Province.1942: He performed vital work coastwatching on New Britain and Bougainville.In 1943-44 he assisted US Marines in
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Thread THE LOST 600: October 1942, 600 British PoWs were taken by the IJN from Singapore to Ballalae (or Balalae) Island, 7,000km east (just off Bougainville Island) to build a
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1/6: Late1945: Suspected Japanese war criminals from all over the Pacific region were rounded up, detained, and carefully guarded for months by troops of New Guinea Infantry Battalions. The NGIB
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1/9: Near Rabaul on New Britain Island, New Guinea, there were several camps for almost 6,000 Indian WW2 prisoners of war. The camps were often damp from tropical downpours, hot,
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