Angels and Victims: The People of New Guinea in World War II
American and Australian forces relied on native New Guineans to achieve victory. For the white Australian and American (and some African American) troops who fought there, New Guinea was one of the most horrific battlegrounds of World War II.
New Guinea campaign - Wikipedia
The New Guinea campaign of the Pacific War lasted from January 1942 until the end of the war in August 1945. During the initial phase in early 1942, the Empire of Japan invaded the Territory of New Guinea on 23 January and Territory of Papua on 21 July and overran western New Guinea (part of the Netherlands East Indies ) beginning on 29 March.
A WWII Survival Epic Unfolds Deep In 'Shangri-La' - NPR
Apr 26, 2011 · In May 1945, a plane carrying 24 men and women crashed into a hidden valley in New Guinea. There were only three survivors. Journalist Mitchell Zuckoff tells the remarkable story of their rescue...
Remembering the war in New Guinea - North coast New Guinea …
The first large patrol out of Salamaua was on 18 March when 60 marines led by four New Guineans marched to Komiatum, destroyed an NGVR supply dump and returned to base. For many New Guineans, the Japanese were merely another foreign occupier (after …
Remembering the war in New Guinea - Strategy and command
Australians might have learnt about war at Gallipoli, but New Guinea was the place where Australians learned about strategy and military operations. There are numerous popular images of Australia’s New Guinea campaigns.
New Guinea campaign of the Pacific War 1942-1945 - World War …
Soldiers of the 96th Engineer Battalion filling sandbags used to form ramps for unloading supplies and equipment from landing craft in New Guinea 1942
NEW GUINEA 24 JANUARY 1943–31 DECEMBER 1944 The campaign on New Guinea is all but forgotten except by those who served there. Battles with names like Tarawa, Saipan, and Iwo Jima overshadow it....
Remembering the war in New Guinea - Coming of the war to the …
One is that the war enabled New Guineans to experience a range of occupations that hitherto had been denied them; it set in train a series of changes over which neither Australia nor Papua New Guinea could exercise control.
Leading up to World War II, Australian administrators and settlers constructed Papua New Guineans as primitives in contrast to white Australians. During the war, the negative stereotypes and disparaging attitudes justified exploitative recruitment, negation of indigenous agency, poor working conditions, inadequate compensation, and casual abuse.
One of the best modern studies on the native people of New Guinea is by a political scientist, C. D. Rowley, whose The New Guinea Villager (Melbourne, 1965) is based upon firsthand experience.