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[21] [22] Of the total force, 22,500 combat troops were assigned to the landing at Aitape; while the rest (nearly 30,000) were allocated to the Hollandia landings. [4] [23] The main landings at Hollandia would be made at two locations. The U.S. 24th Division's 19th and 21st Regimental Combat Teams (RCTs) were to land at Tanahmerah Bay.
In the 2000s, the Navy's T-34 Mentors used the airfield for touch and go landings. Following the Military Compatibility Area Overlay Districts (MCAOD) in 2011, airspace and land around NOLF Waldron was divided into three subzones, the Noise Subzone, the Vertical Obstruction Subzone, and the Lighting Subzone.
American and Allied forces undertook an amphibious landing on 22 April 1944 at Aitape on the northern coast of Papua New Guinea. The amphibious landing was undertaken simultaneously with the landings at Humboldt and Tanahmerah Bays to secure Hollandia to isolate the Japanese 18th Army at Wewak. Operations in the area to consolidate the landing ...
USS LST-26 was a United States Navy LST-1-class tank landing ship used in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater during World War II and manned by a United States Coast Guard crew. Like many of her class, she was not named and is properly referred to by her hull designation.
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.
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
Naval Outlying Field Goliad (ICAO: KNGT, FAA LID: NGT) is a military airport located five nautical miles (6 mi, 9 km) north of the central business district of Berclair, Texas, in Goliad County. It is owned by the United States Navy. [1] The airfield has two runways, both 8000 feet long by 150 feet wide.
The current 34th Infantry Regiment was organized at El Paso, Texas on 15 July 1916, four months into the Punitive Expedition into Mexico led by Major General John J. Pershing. The 34th's original cadre was drawn from the 7th, 20th and 23rd regiments. The regiment was assigned to border patrol and National Guard training duties.