Episode 289-The Invasion of New Guinea

The History of WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.4 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

With Rabaul taken the Japanese go after locations in NE New Guinea, but will have to deal with Vice Adm. Wilson Brown and the US carriers Lexington and Yorktown. The Americans and Australians achieve a surprise air raid on Lae and Salamaua, now owned by the Japanese, but the later will not be deterred from planning their next strike against Port Moresby. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.6	Hello. And thank you for listening to the history of World War Two
0:58.3	podcast. Episode 289. The Invasion of New Guinea.
1:03.2	Last time, the islands of New Britain and New Ireland just off New
1:08.7	Guinea's East Coast fell to the Japanese. The conquest had been relatively
1:14.7	simple, but the odds had been heavily on the invader side.
1:19.0	Still, now it was time to go after the big prize, New Guinea itself,
1:24.9	which begged the question, where were the three American carriers that had been
1:30.0	lucky enough not to be at Pearl Harbor during the surprise attack?
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