William Halsey, Jr. Lawrence F. Reifsnider Alfred H. Noble William L. McKittrick
Strength
4,000
Casualties and losses
1 injured
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New Guinea campaign
1942
Battle of Rabaul
1st Lae-Salamaua
Coral Sea
Kokoda Track
Milne Bay
Goodenough Island
Buna–Gona
Lilliput
Merauke
1943
Wau
Bismarck Sea
I-Go
2nd Lae-Salamaua
Chronicle
Markham-Ramu-Finisterres
Wewak Raid
Huon Peninsula
New Britain
Bombing of Rabaul
1944–45
Neutralisation of Rabaul
Admiralties
Emirau
Take Ichi
Bombing of Hollandia
Western New Guinea
The Landing on Emirau was the last of the series of operations that made up Operation Cartwheel, General Douglas MacArthur's strategy for the encirclement of the major Japanese base at Rabaul. A force of nearly 4,000 United States Marines landed on the island of Emirau on 20 March 1944. The island was not occupied by the Japanese and there was no fighting. It was developed into an airbase which formed the final link in the chain of bases surrounding Rabaul. The isolation of Rabaul permitted MacArthur to turn his attention westward and commence his drive along the north coast of New Guinea toward the Philippines.
The LandingonEmirau was the last of the series of operations that made up Operation Cartwheel, General Douglas MacArthur's strategy for the encirclement...
Battle of Sangshak began in Manipur. U.S. Marines began the unopposed LandingonEmirau. Soviet forces captured the Ukrainian cities of Vinnytsia and Mohyliv-Podilskyi...
Adelphi Theatre in London. March 20 – WWII: LandingonEmirau: 4,000 United States Marines land onEmirau Island in the Bismarck Archipelago to develop...
which were occupying Emirau Island and seeking out enemy supply barges along the coast of New Hanover. Following a stop at Purvis on 3 June, Heermann took...
Nazi-occupied France, to protect the coming landings. Many of the paratroopers were not dropped on their intended landing zones and were scattered throughout...
radioman-gunner and mechanic, participating in the Solomons, Philippines and Emirau operations. On October 22, 1945, he received his honorable discharge. He continued...
Emirau Airport is an airfield in Emirau Island, Papua New Guinea. Emirau was seized unopposed by two Battalions of the 4th Marine Regiment on 20 March...
Channel in support of landings at Emirau Island, 21 March. She next escorted replacement troops from Purvis Bay, Florida Island, to Emirau. Returning to Purvis...
supported landingsonEmirau Island, Bismarck Archipelago. Braine spent the ensuing months in escort work and training for the Marianas invasion. On 14 June...
Spence operated with TF 39 from 1 to 24 March to support the landingsonEmirau Island. On the 27th she sortied from Purvis Bay with TF 58 for strikes...
in the Solomons, joining in the landingsonEmirau 20 March 1944. After training and replenishment at Port Purvis on Florida Island in the Solomons, and...
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