To SalamauaFollowing on from his acclaimed book, The Battle for Wau, Phillip Bradley turns his attention to the Salamaua campaign - the first of the New Guinea offensives by the Australian Army in the Second World War. Opening with the pivotal air-sea battle of the Bismarck Sea, this important title recounts the fierce land campaign that was fought for the ridges that guarded the Japanese base at Salamaua. From Mount Tambu to Old Vickers and across the Francisco River, the Australians and their American allies fought a desperate struggle to keep the Imperial Japanese Army diverted from the strategic prize of Lae. To Salamaua covers the entire campaign in one volume for the first time. From the strategic background of the campaign and the heated conflicts, to the mud and blood of the front lines, this is the extraordinary story. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Death in the Bismarck Sea | 3 |
Opposing forces | 31 |
Warfes tigers | 52 |
Supply lines | 78 |
Mubo stalemate | 106 |
On Lababia Ridge | 120 |
On Bobdubi Ridge | 135 |
Mubo falls | 176 |
A bit of a stoush | 186 |
The forbidden mountain | 209 |
Roosevelt Ridge | 231 |
Old Vickers | 249 |
Komiatum Ridge | 274 |
Across the Frisco | 293 |
Salamaua falls | 309 |
Yanks | 161 |
Bibliography | 350 |
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15th Brigade 17th Bde WD 2/3rd Ind Coy 2/7th Battalion 41st Infantry Division 51st Div Intel 58/59th Battalion aircraft Ambush Knoll ammunition artillery ATIS interrogation reports attack August Australian AWM 3DRL Bismarck Sea Bitoi Bn WD Bobdubi Ridge bombs Bren gun Bulolo Captain captured Charlie Hill command convoy Creek crest Damien Parer defenders destroyers Dexter enemy positions enemy troops Finschhafen fire flank Force forward Francisco River Goodview grenades Griff Guinea Force Guinea Offensives headquarters Ibid Infantry interview Japanese positions Japs July jungle killed Komiatum Ridge Lababia later wrote Lieutenant March Markham River metres Missim MLCs morning mortar Moten Mount Tambu mountain guns moved Mubo Nassau Bay night observed Old Vickers operations Owen gun Parer patrol Photo platoon Port Moresby RAAF Rabaul Regiment Salamaua campaign scan Sergeant Squadron supply Tambu Bay Tuluvu Vickers gun Warfe Warfe's weapon pits Wewak wounded