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Troops A and B - they belonged to 1st Squadron, I assume, as 2nd Squadron came after them? Arawe was to be attacked by the Director Task Force, under Brigadier General Julian W. Cunningham. The 11th Air Fleet at Rabaul sent a raid of 20-30 aircraft, which hit at 9am. There were seven raids between 15 and 27 December, and one coastal transport ship was sunk. The Japanese managed to get to the beach despite the best efforts of a force of P-38s providing air cover, but did little damage. Category:Battle of Arawe. Initial Allied goals for the landing at Arawe included securing a base for American PT boats and diverting Japanese forces away from Cape Gloucester. Beginning on the afternoon of the invasion, December 15, and continuing for the next several days, the Japanese launched furious air attacks, … The allied campaign on the Huon Peninsula had given them control of the Vitiaz Strait, between Umboi and New Guinea. Les fichiers sont disponibles sous les licences spécifiées dans leur page de description.
Nick-D (talk) 00:39, 28 November 2009 (UTC). 'Like the units of the 1st Cavalry Division, the 112th Cavalry Regiment was smaller and more lightly armed than US infantry regiments and had only two battalion-sized squadrons compared to the three battalions in infantry regiments' - I realize the comparison with 1st CavDiv to infantry divs is needed to show that they were smaller and more lightly armed, but as 1st CavDiv hasn't been mentioned before, this needs reworking slightly - ie why is 1st CavDiv important - I assume it was the main/only Cav division in the Pacific? 'The US Navy's Beach Party Number 1 also landed with the Director Task Force and was withdrawn once the beachead was secure.' And if so, why isn't the section referring to 2nd Squadron describing its own troops, whatever letters were assigned to them? The most serious opposition on D-Day came in the air. This was repulsed. This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on December 15, 2013. On 9 April his party ran into a Marine outpost established after the conquest of Talasea on 6-11 March and he was killed in the resulting fire fight. 'Two subsidiary landings were planned to take place one hour before dawn and before the main body of the Director Task Force landed at House Fireman Beach on the Arawe Peninsula' - Does this mean that of the two landings, one was an hour before and and the other before the main body landed, or were both at the same time (ie the main landings were also an hour before dawn). The Japanese units at Arawe withdrew from the area towards the end of February as part of a general retreat from western New Britain. 327–328 and 343, List of ranks in the fire, police, jail, and corrections services of the Philippines, People of the American Civil War by state, Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia, South West Pacific theatre of World War II, "Vol. Hata is a more recent book, so should we use his numbers? United States landing craft and soldiers approach the beach at Arawe. F Company, 158th infantry, arrived on 10 January and the light tanks of the 1st Tank Battalion, 1st Marine Division, followed on 12 January. On 20 December Komori reached the Pulie River, several miles to the east of the abandoned airfield. Any Australian opinions on the Gasmata landings and general landings on western New Britain? The battle of Arawe (15 December 1943- 16 January 1944) was a diversionary attack on New Britain, carried out to distract Japanese attention from the main American target at Cape Gloucester on the north-west corner of the island. Not that I could find. The peninsula was surrounded by the Arawe Island, with Arawe Island itself to the west and Pilelo Island to the south.

'USS Shaw, the destroyer assigned to support the landing, was unable to provide supporting fire.

While some have argued that the landing served as a useful diversion ahead of the Cape Gloucester operation, others believe that the entire campaign in western New Britain was unnecessary, and that the force employed at Arawe could have been better used elsewhere. The western end of New Britain was important for two reasons. IV, The Pacific: Guadalcanal to Saipan, August 1942 to July 1944", http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/IV/index.html, Australia in the War of 1939–1945. I may have to continue these at a later date, and as such have divided them into sections based on the article itself: Hata's book, which I just added to the references section, has somewhat different numbers than Morison. D-Day.

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