✦ History

New Guinea campaign

January 23, 1942 – August 1945 · New Guinea

Result Allied victory

Allied forces, mainly Australian and American, fought the Japanese for New Guinea in jungle and mountain terrain. Disease and supply problems caused heavy losses on both sides, and Japanese forces were cut off and defeated.

On the map Overview Contemporaries

Australia

Empire of Japan

Other

Australia
United States
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Japan
Douglas MacArthur military commander Robert L. Eichelberger military commander George Kenney military commander
Isoroku Yamamoto military commander Jisaburō Ozawa military commander Tomitarō Horii military commander Jinichi Kusaka military commander Hatazō Adachi military commander Hitoshi Imamura military commander

Strength and losses

Casualties
42,000

United States Casualties 12,291

Units

Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Sixth Army (United States) X Corps (United States) I Corps (Australia) II Corps (Australia) XI Corps (United States) 38th Infantry Division (United States) 41st Infantry Division (United States) 93rd Infantry Division (United States) 11th Airborne Division Also under XIV Corps (United States) 11th Division (Australia) 24th Infantry Division (United States) 32nd Infantry Division (United States) 33rd Infantry Division (United States) 3rd Division (Australia) 43rd Infantry Division (United States) 46th Infantry Division (United States) 6th Infantry Division (United States) 7th Division (Australia) 14th Brigade (Australia) 55th Battalion (Australia) 18th Brigade (Australia) 2/10th Battalion (Australia) 2/12th Battalion (Australia) 2/9th Battalion (Australia) 24th Brigade (Australia) 26th Brigade (Australia) 4th Brigade (Australia) 7th Brigade (Australia) 9th Battalion, Royal Queensland Regiment 25th Battalion (Australia) 61st Battalion (Australia) 2/12th Field Regiment (Australia) 1st Tank Battalion 2/31st Battalion (Australia) Task Force 44 Fifth Air Force No. 9 Operational Group RAAF
Eighteenth Army (Japan) Eighth Area Army 41st Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 51st Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 6th Air Division (Japan) 7th Air Division (Japan) 102nd Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army) 8th Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy) Genzan Air Group Kanoya Air Group
7th Cavalry Regiment

Battles 8