Japanese advances in the Southwest Pacific and Southeast Asia areas during the first five months of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. The proposed offensive on Fiji, Samoa, and New Caledonia is depicted in the lower right corner.An Australian propaganda poster from 1942 referring to the threat of Japanese invasion. This poster was criticised for being alarmist when it was released and was banned by the Queensland government. Japan did have a plan.[1]Victoria Barracks, Melbourne HQ for the US and Australian armed forcesUS General Douglas MacArthur, Commander of Allied forces in the South-West Pacific Area, with Australian Prime Minister John Curtin on 26 March 1942
Naval Base Melbourne was a United States Navy base at Melbourne during World War II. Naval Base Melbourne became the South West Pacific Area Command Headquarters after the 1941 invasion of the Philippines. General Douglas MacArthur, after escaping the Philippines, set up his Headquarters after his arrival on 21 March 1942. MacArthur was appointed Supreme Commander of all Allied Forces in the South West Pacific Area. The US Navy also set up a Headquarters a Melbourne, Allied Naval Forces Southwest Pacific Area under Commander Vice Admiral Herbert F. Leary.[2] MacArthur and Leary used the empty Trustees Executive building at 401 Collins Street, Melbourne for headquarters. The Port of Melbourne had good fleet anchorage and docks. A new naval base was built at Brisbane, Australia, Naval Base Brisbane, and the Headquarters was moved to Brisbane in July 1942.[3][4][5]
NavalBaseMelbourne was a United States Navy base at Melbourne during World War II. NavalBaseMelbourne became the South West Pacific Area Command Headquarters...
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NavalBase Brisbane was a major United States Navy base built in the early part of World War II at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. At first, operated...
21°21′23″N 157°57′53″W / 21.356365°N 157.964705°W / 21.356365; -157.964705 NavalBase Hawaii was a number of United States Navy bases in the Territory of Hawaii...
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Naval Air Station (NAS) Melbourne was a United States NavalBase in Melbourne, Florida. The Navy used NAS Melbourne for gunnery training for pilots of...
NavalBase Manila, Naval Air Base Manila was a major United States Navy base south of the City of Manila, on Luzon Island in the Philippines. Some of the...
Authorized by the Naval Expansion Act of 1938, Naval Air Station Banana River was commissioned on 1 October 1940 as a subordinate base of the Naval Air Operational...
Manus NavalBase was a number of bases built after the World War II Battle of Manus by United States Navy on the Manus Island and a smaller island just...
Two-Ocean Policy, a feasibility study into the use of Garden Island as a navalbase was begun. The 4.3 km (2.7 mi) causeway linking the island with the mainland...
Lombrum NavalBase, also known as HMPNGS Tarangau and formerly PNG Defence Force Base Lombrum, is a naval military base operated by the Maritime Operations...
Dean, Peter J. (ed.). Australia 1944–45: Victory in the Pacific. Port Melbourne, Victoria: Cambridge University Press. pp. 213–231. ISBN 978-1-107-08346-2...
Henderson NavalBase was a proposed and partially built navalbase of the Royal Australian Navy south of Fremantle, Western Australia in what is now the...
administered by Patrick Space Force Base. Originally established as the Malabar Naval Outer Landing Field as a naval airfield in 1943 within Brevard County...
as Naval Air Station Melbourne during World War II.[citation needed] Returned to the city as a Surplus Property Airport after the War, Melbourne Airport...
naval installation or are part of a Joint Base operated jointly with another part of the US military. A naval outlying landing field (NOLF) or naval auxiliary...
). South Melbourne, VIC: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-551784-2. OCLC 271822831. Greg, Swinden (14 June 2011). "Australasian Naval Forces and...
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