ABC documentary about the Battle of Port Moresby - an aerial battle fought between aircraft of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), United States Army Air Force (USAAF) and aircraft of the Imperial ...

GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Melbourne -- A threat to Port Moresby, chief allied outpost in New Guinea, dwindled Monday night with reports that Japanese troops have fallen back on Lae, 195 miles ...

The key to the defence of New Guinea was Port Moresby, where demoralised Australian troops with scant air support worried they would be sacrificed like the garrison at Rabaul on the neighbouring ...

ADVANCED ALLIED BASE, Monday — With the infiltration of Japanese troops from Gona Mission in northern Papua and the contacting of them by our patrols at Awala about 40 miles from the coast, it seems ...

EARLY on February 11, 1942, 12 Australian airmen in Port Moresby were told that several Japanese cargo ships had arrived in Gasmata harbour on the PNG island of New Britain. The crews of three RAAF ...