New Guinea campaign of the Pacific War 1942-1945 | World War Photos

New Guinea

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: Japanese prisoners captured during final assault on Gona 1943

: LSTs move toward invasion beach at Saidor New Guinea 1944

: US invasion troops on Aitape Dutch New Guinea 1944

: Invasion troops haul supplies ashore at Hollandia

: Japanese planes under attack on Wewak airfield

: Australian troops of the 7th Division entering Lae

: Hollandia Invasion

: Carring wounded GI on Mount Tambu September 3, 1943

: US Signal Corps men advancing under fire on New Guinea

: Unloading Piper L-4H Grasshopper on Wakde 1944

: Water Tank Built by U.S. Engineers in New Guinea Jungle. Dodge WC-12 in the foreground.

: LVTs pass wreck of Japanese plane at Sentani, Hollandia April 1944

: LCIs head for shore during Invasion of Hollandia 1944

: Landing at Kamiri on Noemfoor Island July 1944

: GIs Sgt Roof and Beatty Mt Tambu August 29, 1943

: USAAF bombing of Japanese ships in Hansa Bay, New Guinea 1943

: LST landing 32nd Division troops at Saidor, January 1944

: Australian wounded transported by log rafts in New Guinea

: US troops with M2A1 105mm Howitzer named “Green Death” in Wakde 1944

: Japanese bombers Hollandia

: US soldiers digging air raid shelter in New Guinea 1944

: Aerial view of the opening stages of the assault on Hollandia on April 23, 1944

: US Cemetery No1 at Milne Bay New Guinea 1943

: Wounded US troops loaded into barges at Salamaua 1943

: US troops march thru village of Depapre 1944

: Japanese infantrymen leaving a trench near Buna during fighting in New Guinea 1943

: LSTs Tadji New Guinea 1944

: US troops and LVT on Shore Korako New Guinea 1944

: US troops with Japanese Daihatsu Landing Craft in New Guinea 1942

: Australian troops advance from Gona toward Buna New Guinea 1943

: US troops using Jeep to lay cable in New Guinea

: 32nd Division mortar crew in action during Battle for Buna 1942

: Allied troops equipment land for Invasion of Dutch New Guinea. Model 1918 155mm Schneider Howitzer in the foreground

: US troops and native porters cross stream in New Guinea 1942

: Japanese planes bomb US ship at Port Moresby

: US troops crawl thru clearing under sniper fire on New Guinea 1943

: US and Australian troops inspect downed G4M at Lae 1943

: USS LSM-138 with invasion armada at Seeadler Harbor Los Negros, 7 October 1944

: US soldiers with captured 20mm Type 97 Japanese anti-tank rifle at Hollandia 1944

: USAAF bombing of Japanese ships in Hansa Bay New Guinea 1943

: LSTs at Tanahmerah Bay Hollandia Dutch New Guinea

: Marine patrol in native village Gurissu New Britain 1944

: US troops advance under cover of Machine Gun in New Guinea 1944

: U.S Soldier in captured Japanese machine gun nest on New Guinea 1943

: Parachute bombs fall on Japanes plane on airfield at Hollandia

: US troops man M2A1 105mm howitzer in Salamaua New Guinea 1943

: Soldier captured Japanese Type 88 75mm Anti-Aircraft Gun Buna

: 32nd Infantry Division troops arriving at Port Moresby 1942

: US troops in HBT camouflage uniforms with Japanese POWs in Hollandia

: Station hospital in New Guinea 15 January 1944

: US troops man Anti Aircraft MG in New Guinea 1942

: US troops debark from LST-66 at Tanahmerah Bay Hollandia

: Allied troops set up 105mm howitzer in Depapre New Guinea 1944

: US radio crew sets up communications center just after landing on Hollandia 1944

: US troops and vehicles along the invasion beach at Korako

: LSTs landing Aussies East of Lae

: GI with Thompson submachine gun in fox hole Buna 22 February 1943

: Troops of 32nd Division fire into Japanese dugout at Buna 1943

: Aerial view of USAAF attack on a Japanese vessel near Lae 1943

: View of the Markham River Valley near the Japanese base at Lae after troopers of the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment landed to cut off the escape of 20000 Japanese from that base

: Aerial view as landing craft move through Tanahmerah Bay during the invasion of Hollandia April 22rd 1944

: Soldiers of the 96th Engineer Battalion filling sandbags used to form ramps for unloading supplies and equipment from landing craft in New Guinea 1942

: Australian transport MV MacDhui burning in harbor after being hit during attack on Port Moresby by G4M1 Betty bombers from the 4th Kokutai 1942

: Bodies of fallen Japanese soldiers and a wrecked Daihatsu landing barge at Sanananda Point 1943

: The final assault on Buna Australian mortar crew from HQ company 2/12th Battalion lays down a barrage as infantry advances to attack a Japanese pillbox, Giropa Point 1943

: US soldiers move up to clear Japanese snipers from jungle foliage during mopping up operations in the area from Buna to Sanananda Point New Guinea 1943

: Dock landing ship shown somewhere in New Guinea with its deck loaded with small craft including LSTs DUKW, LVTs and LCMs 44

: Infantrymen advance under the cover of an LVT as they search for Japanese during sweep across Middleburg Island, Dutch New Guinea 1944

: Aerial View as US Planes Bomb Japanese Ships at Rabaul Harbor

: Japanese Landing Crafts At Buna Papua New Guinea

: US Soldiers Heat Rations over Fire near Buna, New Guinea

: Japanese Transport Ship Bombed Off New Guinea 1944

: Marine Guards with Captured Japanese Ammo on New Britain

: US Invasion Troops on Aitape New Guinea Beach

: 41st Division soldiers with Captured Japanese Flags in New Guinea

: Parafrag Bombs Fall on Rabauls Vunakanau Airfield

: US Troops With Captured Japanese Weapons, Flags New Guinea

: Aerial View Japanese Transport Hit New Guinea 1944

: Gen. Eichelberger Examines Captured Japanese Gun in Hollandia

: 31st Division Fortifications In Aitape Jungle New Guinea 1944

: USAAF Destruction Of Hollandia Airfield 1944

: Troops Move Mortar Ammo for Attack in New Guinea

: Paratroops Capture Lae Nadzab New Guinea 5 September 1943

: LCVP Heads for Beach at Hollandia Operation Wreckless 22 April 1944

New Guinea campaign January 1942 – August 1945