Admiralty Islands campaign
The Admiralty Islands campaign was a series of battles in the New Guinea campaign of World War II in which the United States Army's 1st Cavalry Division took the Japanese-held Admiralty Islands.
The first wave of US troops lands on Los Negros, Admiralty Islands, 29 February 1944
Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid (left centre) with General Douglas MacArthur (centre) on the flag bridge of USS Phoenix during the pre-invasion bombardment of Los Negros Island.
Admiralty Islands operations, 29 February – 30 May 1944
Admiralty Islands, 29 February 1944. General Douglas MacArthur decorates the first man ashore, 2nd Lieutenant Marvin J. Henshaw, with the Distinguished Service Cross
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 beginning on 29 March. During the second phase, lasting from late 1942 until the Japanese surrender, the Allies—consisting primarily of Australian forces—cleared the Japanese first from Papua, then New Guinea, and finally from the Dutch colony.
Australian forces attack Japanese positions near Buna
Papua New Guinea, the Bismarcks and the Northern Solomons
Two dead Japanese soldiers in a water filled shell hole somewhere in New Guinea
An Allied A-20 bomber attacks Japanese shipping during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, March, 1943
