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The Landing at Jacquinot Bay was an Allied amphibious operation undertaken on 4 November 1944 during the New Britain Campaign of World War II. The landing was conducted as part of a change in responsibility for Allied operations on New Britain.
In October 1944, the Australian 5th Division took over from the US troops and undertook a landing at Jacquinot Bay the following month, before beginning a limited offensive to secure a defensive line across the island between Wide Bay and Open Bay behind which they contained the numerically superior Japanese forces for the remainder of the war ...
- 15 December 1943-21 August 1945
- Allied victory
- New Britain, Territory of New Guinea
The Landing at Jacquinot Bay was an Allied amphibious landing at Jacquinot Bay during the New Britain Campaign of World War II on 4 November 1944. [1] The first echelon, consisting of the 14th/32nd Battalion and a company of the 1st New Guinea Infantry Battalion, was transported by two transports...
- 4 November 1944
- 3 min
- Allied victory
Jacquinot Bay is a bay in East New Britain Province, south-eastern New Britain, Papua New Guinea, at 5.5666667°S 151.5°E. It is near the mountain where twenty-eight people died when a Royal Australian Air Force plane crashed in November 1945. [1]
Australian troops landing at Jacquinot Bay, on the south coast of New Britain, were materially aided by RAN and RAAF forces in the ...
Mar 22, 2019 · English: The 1944 WW II Landing at Jacquinot Bay on New Britain, an island of present day Papua New Guinea.
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Aussies Land at Jacquinot Bay. 11 OCT 1944: World War II and the Australians land at Jacquinot Bay, New Britain. The Australians’ arrival opened the successful New Britain campaign in which a small Militia force successfully contained the large Japanese garrison holding Rabaul.
