Description
Object description
whole: the image occupies the whole. The title is integrated and positioned in the upper quarter, in white. The main text
is separate and placed in the lower left, in black, held within a white inset, and in the upper right, in black and in red, also held
within a white inset. Further text is located over the majority, in black and along the bottom edge, in white.
image: a map of New Guinea, with advances made by Australian and American forces during 1942 and 1944 shown with red and brown
arrows.
text: NEW GUINEA VICTORIES
[map has various place names]
AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH MILITARY FORCES
AUSTRALIAN MILITARY FORCES
NEW GUINEA BATTLE RECORD
1942
25 Aug - 5 Sept
Australians defeat Japanese Landing at MILNE BAY. Japanese Army's first reverse in Pacific War.
28 Sept
Owen Stanleys Offensive, Australians retake EORIBAIWA RIDGE.
25 Oct
Australians capture GOODENOUGH ISLAND
2 Nov
Australians re-capture KOKODA.
9 Nov
Australians re-take GORARI.
11 Nov
Australians capture OIVI.
13 Nov
Australians capture WAIROPI.
9 Dec
Australians occupy GONA.
19 Dec
Australians and Americans re-capture CAPE ENDAIDIERE.
1943
2 Jan
Australians and Americans re-capture BUNA.
22 Jan
Australians and Americans take SANANANDA.
30 Jan
Australians defeat Japanese attack on WAU.
3 Feb
Australians at Wau counter-attack and begin the drive to SALAMAUA.
16 Mar
Japanese cleared from MUBO gardens.
30 Jun
U.S. Troops join Australians at NASSAU BAY.
21 Aug
Australians capture KOMIATUM RIDGE.
4 Sep
Australians land on HUON GULF and begin drives to LAE and FINSCHHAFEN.
5 Sep
American Paratroops, Australian Paratroops Artillery and Australian Engineers and Pioneers seize NADZAB.
7 Sep
Australians fly into MARKHAM VALLEY.
11 Sep
Australians capture SALAMAUA.
16 Sep
Australians take LAE.
2 Oct
Australians take FINSCHHAFEN
U.S. troops establish perimeter at SAIDOR.
4 Oct
Australians capture DUMPU (Ramu Valley)
25 Nov
Australians drive Japanese from SATELBERG.
8 Dec
Australians capture WAREO.
23 Dec
U.S. Landing at ARAWE. (New Britain).
26 Dec
U.S. Landing at CAPE GLOUCESTER.
1944
23 Jan
Australians capture SHAGGY RIDGE.
10 Feb
Australians and Americans link up east of SAIDOR.
13 Apr
Australians take BOGADJIM.
24 Apr
Australians take MADANG.
26 Apr
Australians take ALEXISHAFEN.
15 Jun
Australians occupy HANSA BAY.
13 Jul
Australians reach SEPIK RIVER MOUTH.
Our Army has never encountered anything more grim than the campaigns which have been fought in the jungles of New Guinea.
Some of the men who fought in these New Guinea campaigns had been through Greece and Crete; others fought in the North African desert;
others in Syria; some were meeting an enemy for the first time. they proved their superiority - and that of the white races - over this
beast from the Western Pacific, and they will go on proving it until victory brings peace again to the World.
T a Blamey [signature]
General,
Commander-in-Chief
Australian Military Forces.
AUSTRALIAN THRUSTS
U.S. THRUSTS
LILLEY
L.H.Q./Misc./6494
ISSUED BY THE DIRECTOR GENERAL ARMY PUBLIC RELATIONS
PRINTED BY AUTHORITY - L.H.Q. CARTOGRAPHIC COY., AUST. SURVEY CORPS AUGUST 1944.
Physical description
L.H.Q./Misc/6494.