The New Guinea campaign of the Pacific War lasted from January 1942 until the end of the war in August 1945. During the initial phase in early 1942, the Empire of Japan invaded the Territory of New Guinea on 23 January and Territory of Papua on 21 July and overran western New Guinea (part of the Netherlands East Indies ) beginning on 29 March.

Nevertheless, the New Guinea campaign began in summer 1942 when Japan attempted to isolate Australia through an overland attack from Buna to Port Moresby. This attack resulted in the first American action on that mountainous and jungle‐covered island.

The New Guinea campaign of the Pacific War lasted from January 1942 until the end of the war in September 1945. In the initial phase in 1942, the Empire of Japan invaded the Australian-administered territories of the New Guinea Mandate (23 January) and Papua (8 March) and overran western New Guinea (beginning 29/30 March), which was a part of ...

The New Guinea campaign was one of the hardest-fought of World War II. American and Australian forces relied on native New Guineans to achieve victory.

NEW GUINEA 24 JANUARY 1943–31 DECEMBER 1944 The campaign on New Guinea is all but forgotten except by those who served there. Battles with names like Tarawa, Saipan, and Iwo Jima...

The remorseless Allied advance along the northern New Guinea coastline toward the Philippines forced the Japanese to divert precious ships, planes, and men who might otherwise have reinforced their crumbling Central Pacific front.

After the Japanese invasion of New Guinea the Americans, aided by Australian troops, organized a series of landings and other offensive actions against the Japanese in New Guinea. The campaign was long and arduous, but by the end of 1944 the …

New Guinea Campaign - Aitape and the Driniumor River Hollandia, in Netherland’s New Guinea and approximately 450 miles west of Saidor, was Gen. MacArthur’s next objective for his return to the Philippines.

Finally victorious at Buna, MacArthur would wait 16 months before his next major operation along the northern coast of New Guinea. In a brilliant campaign that would bring the American army to...

By its end, the New Guinea campaign killed 202,100 Japanese soldiers, sailors, and aviators, more than half of them dying from disease, untreated wounds, and starvation. The Allies lost 15,000; 7000 of these were Americans.