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The Philippines campaign, Battle of the Philippines, Second Philippines campaign, or the Liberation of the Philippines, codenamed Operation Musketeer I, II, and III, was the American, Filipino, Australian, and Mexican campaign to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Philippines during World War II.
During their time in Port Moresby 75 Squadron had lost 21 aircraft and 12 pilots. The Battle of the Coral Sea, which was fought mostly in the waters south-east of Papua in early May, diverted a Japanese naval attack against Port Moresby and removed the immediate threat. However, by May 1942 the Japanese had established themselves in the arc of ...
Port Moresby is a tropical city on the southeast coast of New Guinea Island. Port Moresby had good Fleet anchorage in a protected port that is 5 miles long by 3 miles wide, with a sand and clay seafloor at Fairfax Harbor-Moresby Harbor. Base construction started on June 20, 1943 with the arrival of US Navy Seabees of the 55th Battalion.
Major United States Army airfield in the Philippines from 1919. Occupied by Imperial Japanese Army January 1942 – January 1945. Active USAF base from after liberation until 1991 when destroyed after Mount Pinatubo explosion. Battle of the Philippines (1941–42) V Bomber Command, 14 November – 24 December 1941
United States military bases were established in the Philippines on the basis of a treaty signed after the conclusion of World War II and the recognition of Philippine independence by the US. The bases established under that treaty were discontinued in 1991 and 1992, after the Senate of the Philippines narrowly rejected a new treaty which would ...
The Philippines campaign (Filipino: Kampanya sa Pilipinas, Spanish: Campaña en las Filipinas del Ejercito Japonés, Japanese: フィリピンの戦い, romanized: Firipin no Tatakai), also known as the Battle of the Philippines (Filipino: Labanan sa Pilipinas) or the Fall of the Philippines, was the invasion of the United States territory of the Philippines by the Empire of Japan during the ...
A second flight by the 19th Bombardment Group, consisting of twenty-six B-17D aircraft moved from Hamilton Field, California, to Clark Field, Philippines, via Hickam Field, Midway Island, Wake Island, Port Moresby, New Guinea and Darwin, Northern Territory in the first permanent change of station air movement from the United States to the ...
United States Australia Netherlands United Kingdom New Zealand: Anniversaries: 30 March 1942: Engagements: World War II Philippines campaign (1941–1942) New Guinea campaign; Philippines Campaign (1944–45) Borneo campaign (1945) Commanders; Notable commanders: Douglas MacArthur