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bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Japan > New Guinea, © 2025 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 22 Jun 2025

US Army ground forces entered combat in support of Australian ground forces in Papua, New Guinea late in 1942. Allied forces slowly advanced along the coast of northeast New Guinea into early 1944. Amphibious operations in 1944 in the final stages of New Guinea operations projected US power along the west coast of northern New Guinea and into the eastern reaches of today's Indonesia.

• Late in 1942, US Army ground forces entered combat in support of Australian ground forces in Papua, New Guinea.
• Into early 1944, Allied forces slowly advanced along the coast of northeast New Guinea in a combination of land and amphibious operations.
• Beginning in December 1944, US amphibious landings seized locations in the western Bismarck Archipelago.
  
• from April to September 1944, amphibious operations projected US power along the west coast of northern New Guinea and as far as Morotai in the eastern reaches of today's Indonesia.

The New Guinea Area

Scalable Map

Sources for Big Pigeon's WWII Japan > New Guinea webpage:

• ​The New Guinea Area Map is courtesy of the University of Texas Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection of
  World War II Maps, https://maps.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/new_guinea_1942-1944.jpg, with source American Military History, United States Army Center of Military History, 1989.