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LST-26 sailed from Galveston, Texas, on 24 July 1943, with Convoy HK 111 heading for Key West, Florida, where she arrived on 28 July. [3] Proceeding to the Pacific, LST-26 was at Townsville, Australia, on 29 October 1943. [4] LST-26 participated in the Cape Gloucester landings, New Britain at the end of December 1943 and January 1944. [1]
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.
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 landings were planned at "Blue Beach", a 1,200-yard (1,100 m) beach about 1 mile (1.6 km) from Tadji Airfield. [16] Obscured by heavy smoke from fires from the beachhead, the crews of the landing craft became disorientated and came ashore at the wrong place, landing at Wapil on 22 April 1944. [18]
A pilot safely ejected from a plane Thursday after a failed landing that was caught on video at a North Texas military base, officials said. The Marine Corps variant of a fighter jet, known as a F ...
The group moved to Hollandia Airfield on 7 May 1944 as the Japanese gave way to repeated assaults on their New Guinea strongholds. The 3d Bomb Group carried out strikes against Japanese shipping, struck airfields at low level and on 17 May, supported the landing at Wakde Island with six missions. Fires were started in fuel dumps on Wakde ...
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; Landing at Hollandia, a battle of the Western New Guinea campaign of World War II in April 1944
From 30 March to 3 April 1944 the United States Fifth Air Force, under the command of General George Kenney, conducted a series of bombing raids on the important airbase of Hollandia that led to the destruction of 340 Japanese airplanes on the ground and 60 Japanese airplanes shot down in combat.