Landing at Saidor: 13,000 US and Australian troops land on Papua New Guinea in an attempt to cut off a Japanese retreat

Quand

2 janv. 1944

Type

Événement

Coordonnées

5.63° S, 146.47° E

Description

Landing at Saidor: 13,000 US and Australian troops land on Papua New Guinea in an attempt to cut off a Japanese retreat.

Placé à : coordinates of the event it links, Landing at Saidor.

Allied amphibious landing of World War II

The landing at Saidor, codenamed Operation Michaelmas, was an Allied amphibious landing at Saidor, Territory of New Guinea on 2 January 1944 as part of Operation Dexterity during World War II. An airbase at Saidor could secure the Dampier and Vitiaz Straits, the ultimate objective of General Douglas MacArthur's Huon Peninsula campaign, but the immediate objective was to cut off the 6,000 Imperial Japanese troops retr…

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