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  • Chapter 3 - The Battle of Milne Bay

  • Matthew Miller
  • Book:
    Assault Brigade
    Published online:
    25 October 2024
    Print publication:
    29 August 2024, pp 48-67

  • Summary

    It rains daily for nine months and then the monsoon starts.

    Drea, quoting an American soldier in New Guinea1
    The battle at Milne Bay was a confrontation of necessity between the first Australian and US combined force and the Japanese over a strategic natural harbour on the south-eastern end of the island of New Guinea. Milne Bay offered the Allies a staging base to launch operations against the Japanese SWPA headquarters at Rabaul. Conversely, Milne Bay offered the Japanese a base from which to launch operations against the Allied forward headquarters at Port Stanley, which supported the Australian troops fighting the Japanese on the Kokoda Track.