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| Salamaua-Lae campaign | |||||||
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| Part of the New Guinea campaign of the Pacific Theater (World War II) | |||||||
 A US Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber, flying over explosions on the Salamaua Peninsula, where the port is located. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Australia United States |
 Japan | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Douglas MacArthur Thomas Blamey Edmund Herring Stanley Savige Edward Milford George Wootten George Vasey David Whitehead Frank Berryman |
 Hatazō Adachi Hidemitsu Nakano | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
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503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment | |||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| ~30,000 | ~10,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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Australia: 81 killed and 396 wounded | 11,600 killed, wounded or captured | ||||||
Look up "Salamaua–Lae_campaign" on WikipediaWikipedia Categories
- Conflicts in 1943
- Operation Cartwheel
- Territory of New Guinea
- 1943 in Papua New Guinea
- Use British English from November 2017
- South West Pacific theatre of World War II
- Aerial operations and battles of the Pacific War
- Battles of World War II involving the United States
- Battles and operations of World War II involving Japan
- Battles and operations of World War II involving Australia
- Battles and operations of World War II involving Papua New Guinea
- Battles and operations of World War II involving the United States
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