By January 1942, Rabaul was front of mind for prime minister John Curtin, who had assumed office only three months earlier. Upon the declaration of war against Japan in December 1941, the very ...

The Montevideo Maru was destroyed on July 1, 1942, while transporting prisoners captured during the Battle of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. Timothy Nerozzi is a writer for Fox News Digital.

In the years before the war, Rabaul (pop. 8,000 ... They did—until January 1942, when the Japs arrived. From the Solomons, New Guinea. For 19 months, Rabaul has been the main objective of ...

Their fortifications had been softened by 3,500 tons of bombs dumped on the Cape Gloucester area in almost daily raids since Dec. 1—the most sustained aerial attack of the Southwest Pacific war.

Japan learned of an Allied invasion in the Solomon Islands and Guadalcanal and quickly dispatched Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa ...

But Rabaul also became one of the first of many targets ... The air campaign covered in this book prevented Japanese airpower from recovering from the 1942 battles; in the Battle of the Philippine Sea ...

Former Herbert River RSL President Rick Butler said he was planning to visit the town of Rabaul in East New Britain ... prisoner by Japanese forces in 1942 during World War II.

The Montevideo Maru was destroyed on July 1, 1942, while transporting prisoners captured during the Battle of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea.