Landing at Nadzab
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The Landing at Nadzab was an airborne landing on 5 September 1943 during the New Guinea campaign of World War II in conjunction with the landing at Lae. The Nadzab action began with a parachute drop a
5 September 1943. Dwarfed by and silhouetted against clouds of smoke generated to provide concealment, C-47s from the US Army Air Forces drop a battalion of the 503rd Parachute Regiment at Nadzab, New Guinea. A battalion dropped minutes earlier is landing in the foreground.
Elkton III Plan, March 1943
Lae-Nadzab operations
Crew of a short 25-pounder in the Markham Valley
Landing at Lae
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The Landing at Lae was an amphibious landing to the east of Lae and then the subsequent advance on the town during the Salamaua–Lae campaign of World War II. Part of Operation Postern, which was under
Australian troops disembarking from American Landing Ships, Tank (LST), including LST-456, at Red Beach
Blamey briefs the news media using a scale model of the target area
The US 532nd Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment lays beach mats to allow vehicles to move along the sand. LST-468 and LCT-174 unload in the background.
Sappers erect a pontoon bridge over the Bunga River on the track to Lae to facilitate passage of artillery