Landing on Emirau

Ne zaman

20 Mar 1944 – 27 Mar 1944

Tür

Askeri harekât

Koordinatlar

1.69° S, 150.00° E

Description

1944 landing operation

1944 US operation in Papua New Guinea during WWII

The Landing on Emirau was the last of the series of operations that made up Operation Cartwheel, General Douglas MacArthur's strategy for the encirclement of the major Japanese base at Rabaul. A force of nearly 4,000 United States Marines landed on the island of Emirau on 20 March 1944. The island was not occupied by the Japanese and there was no fighting.

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