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Hollandia was a port on the north coast of New Guinea, part of the Dutch East Indies, and was the only anchorage between Wewak to the east, and Geelvink Bay to the west. It was occupied by the Japanese during their invasion of the Dutch East Indies in 1942, who planned to use it as a base for their expansion towards the Australian mandated territories of Papua and New Guinea.
The Battle of Changsha began. British launched Operation Cockpit - an air raid on Japanese-held Sabang, Indonesia, incurring heavy damage to the port facilities and airfield. The 1944 NFL draft was held in Philadelphia. The Boston Yanks selected Notre Dame quarterback Angelo Bertelli as the #1 overall pick.
Naval Base Hollandia was a United States Navy base built during World War II at Humboldt Bay, near the city of Hollandia (now Jayapura) in New Guinea. The base was built by the US Navy Seabees during the Battle of Hollandia , starting on May 9, 1944.
After the Hollandia bombing raid the Japanese no longer had any substantial air power in all of New Guinea for the rest of the war. Air supremacy was established by the Allied forces. One squadron reported after returning from the raid that "Hollandia had really been Wewaked .'" [ 5 ]
The Landing at Aitape (code-named Operation Persecution) was a battle of the Western New Guinea campaign of World War II.American and Allied forces undertook an amphibious landing on 22 April 1944 at Aitape on the northern coast of Papua New Guinea.
The 16th- and 17th-century arrivals of European powers in Indonesia introduced masonry construction to Indonesia where previously timber and its by-products had been almost exclusively used. In the 17th and 18th centuries, Batavia was a fortified brick and masonry city. [ 154 ]
Captain Sakae Ōba, who led his company of 46 men in guerrilla actions against United States troops following the Battle of Saipan, surrendered on December 1, 1945, three months after the war ended. On January 1, 1946, 20 Japanese Army personnel who had been hiding in a tunnel at Corregidor Island surrendered to a U.S. serviceman after learning ...
Hollandia, a ship of the Dutch East India Company, wrecked in 1743 on her maiden voyage; Jayapura, a city in Indonesia, known as Hollandia from 1910 to 1962; Sentani Airport, the city's airport, formerly known as Hollandia Airfield Complex; Battle of Hollandia, 1944 battle between American and Japanese forces during World War II