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2. Battle of Hollandia - Wikipedia

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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.

3. USS LST-26 - Wikipedia

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   USS LST-26 unloading on the beach at Tanah Merah Bay, Hollandia, Dutch East Indies, c. April–May 1944. LST-22 is the LST alongside USS LST-26 . The LST in the far distance is unidentified.

4. Naval Base Hollandia - Wikipedia

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   Busy Naval Base Hollandia port in 1945 Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless over Naval Base Hollandia's Tanahmerah Bay Navy tank landing ships at Hollandia 1944. 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.

5. Royal Naval Commandos - Wikipedia

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   The Royal Naval Commandos, also known as RN Beachhead Commandos, were a commando formation of the Royal Navy which served during the Second World War.The first units were raised in 1942 and by the end of the war, 22 company-sized units had been raised to carry out various tasks associated with establishing, maintaining and controlling beachheads during amphibious operations.

6. US Amphibious Training Base - Wikipedia

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   A Crusader tank landing on a beach from a Tank Landing Craft in a 1942 test LCVPs, known as 'Higgins Boats', were the first specialized landing craft for the US Navy. Pictured, USS Darke LCVP 18, possibly with Army troops as reinforcements at Okinawa , 1945.

7. Low-flying plane landed just feet from the beach - AOL

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   Princess Juliana International Airport on the Caribbean island of Saint Maarten is a hotspot for close landings, since it's located near Maho Beach. That doesn't make it any less shocking when ...