Allied recapture of Rabaul, New Guinea, from Japan during World War II
Neutralisation of Rabaul
Part of the Solomon Islands Campaign and New Guinea Campaign of World War II
Photo taken from US Marine SBD dive bomber on 2 August 1944, during an air raid on Rabaul. The aircraft are attacking Rabaul's defenses and a previously sunken cargo ship
Date
17 December 1943 – 8 August 1945
Location
Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
Result
Allied victory; effectiveness of Japanese forces at Rabaul destroyed
The neutralisation of Rabaul was an Allied campaign to render useless the Imperial Japanese base at Rabaul in eastern New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Japanese forces landed on Rabaul on 23 January 1942, capturing it by February 1942, after which the harbor and town were transformed into a major Japanese naval and air installation. The Japanese heavily relied on it, using it as a launching point for Japanese reinforcements to New Guinea and Guadalcanal. Throughout the Solomon Islands campaign, neutralizing Rabaul became the primary objective of the Allied effort in the Solomons.
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