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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.
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.
LST-18 remained busy participating in the Hollandia operation at the end of April and the beginning of May 1944, the Toem-Wakde-Sarmi area in the middle of May 1944, the Biak Island invasion in the middle of June 1944, the Noemfoor Island invasion at the beginning to the middle of July 1944, the Cape Sansapor landings at the end of July and the ...
22 April 1944. US LVTs (Landing Vehicles Tracked) in the foreground head for the invasion beaches at Humboldt Bay, Netherlands New Guinea, during the Hollandia landing as the cruisers USS Boise (firing tracer shells, right center) and USS Phoenix bombard the shore. (Photographer: Tech 4 Henry C. Manger.) Admiralty Islands campaign (1944)
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 operation (21–25 April and 1–7 May 1944) Toem-Wakde-Sarmi area (18–20 and 23–25 May 1944) Biak Island (27–30 May, 3–7 and 16 June 1944) Noemfoor Island (10–15 July 1944) Cape Sansapor (30 July and 2, 6–12, 14–19, and 22–28 August 1944) Morotai landings (15 September 1944) Leyte landings (23 October and 4 November 1944)
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 ...
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 ...