#Rabaul

Dennis Burns

DWB55

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

Dennis Burns

DWB55

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

Chris Holland

ChrisCardsFan

In his analysis of Marine amphibious operations in the Central Pacific, Col. Joseph H. Alexander referred to that first “storm landing” at Tarawa atoll as a “vital proving ground” for

Dennis Burns

DWB55

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

VikingWarrior

ChefDad17

#OTD January 22, 1943 The Battle of Buna-Gona came to an end. US and Australian forces were able to capture the Japanese beachheads at Buna, Sansananda, and Gona. Repeated attempts

Dennis Burns

DWB55

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,

Dennis Burns

DWB55

1/5 Few know of the forgotten POW Indian army troops, captured in Feb 42, who didn’t join the INA. 8,000 were sent to New Guinea, where they were brutally used

Donkus the Psycho Shocker

poondonkus

Let's talk about Mudman, the World Heroes character. Let's also talk about Hayao Miyazaki, Papua New Guinea, and Daijirou Morohoshi.World War 2, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and the Yellow Magic Orchestra

Chris Sams

jerijerod14

On the outset of the First World War the German colonies in the Pacific came under immediate threat of invasion and attack by the Allies (and Japan when they joined

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