List of wars involving Papua New Guinea information
This is a list of wars involving Papua New Guinea, German New Guinea or Territory of New Guinea.
Conflict
Combatant 1
Combatant 2
Results
Casualties
Battle of Bita Paka (11 September 1914)
Germany
German New Guinea
Australia
Defeat
30 Melanese police killed, 10 wounded
Australian occupation of German New Guinea (September–November 1914)
Germany
German New Guinea
Australia
Defeat
85 killed and 15 wounded
New Guinea Campaign (1942–1945)
Australia
New Guinea
United States United Kingdom Netherlands
Imperial Japan
Victory
42,000 total[1]
Coconut War (August–September 1980)
Vanuatu Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands
Nagriamel rebels
Victory
?
Bougainville Civil War (1988–1998)
Papua New Guinea
Buka Liberation Front
Bougainville Resistance Force
Supported by: Australia
Bougainville Interim Government (BIG)
Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA)
Supported by: Solomon Islands Fiji (allegedly)
Bougainville Peace Agreement
Establishment of the Autonomous Bougainville Government
300+ PNGDF soldiers killed Several thousand wounded
^New Guinea: The US Army Campaigns of World War II. 8,500 prior to January 1943, 24,000 between January 1943 and April 1944, and 9,500 from April 1944 to the end of the war. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
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