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The New Britain campaign was a World War II campaign fought between Allied and Imperial Japanese forces. The campaign was initiated by the Allies in late 1943 as part of a major offensive which aimed to neutralise the important Japanese base at Rabaul, the capital of New Britain, and was conducted in two phases between December 1943 and the end ...
New Britain Campaign: December 1943-August 1945. In the quest to have Japanese military operations to cease at Rabaul, New Britain, the Allied forces decided to invade on the western part...
The Battle of Cape Gloucester was fought in the Pacific theater of World War II between Japanese and Allied forces on the island of New Britain, Territory of New Guinea, between 26 December 1943 and 16 January 1944.
- 26 December 1943-16 January 1944
- Allied victory
Once a German colony, New Britain was seized in September 1914, in one of the first actions of World War I, by the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force. After the war, control of the island was handed to Australia under a League of Nations mandate and it essentially became an Australian colony.
Yet, with much of the US fleet destroyed and a nation unprepared for war, America and its allies decided they needed to save Great Britain and defeat Germany first. The Japanese, meanwhile, sought to complete what they began at Pearl Harbor.
The Battle for New Britain. Javascript Required Back to CMH Home. The Road to War, 1924-1941 ... New Guinea Campaign; New Guinea Photos; New Guinea Documents;
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.
