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- Anzac Portal: Japanese advance. Further information - https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/wars-and-missions/world-war-ii-1939-1945/events/japanese-advance-december-1941-march-1942
- Anzac Portal: Why was Port Moresby important? Further information - https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/wars-and-missions/kokoda-track-1942-1943…...
- Anzac Portal: The defence of Moresby. Further information - https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/wars-and-missions/world-war-ii-1939-1945…
- Australian War Memorial: Japanese air operations over New Guinea. Further information - https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/journal/j34/shindo
- Gibbs, W. J. 1995 'A Glimpse of the RAAF Meteorological Service', Metarch Papers, No. 7 March 1995, Bureau of Meteorology - Japanese plans for the invasion of Port Moresby and More air raids on Port Moresby. Further information - Federation and Meteorology, Glimpse of the RAAF Meteorological Service, page 425 (unimelb.edu.au)
- Veterans SA: Air battle for Port Moresby
- Papua Act 1905. Further information - Papua Act 1905 (legislation.gov.au)
...three Japanese fighters surprised me and shot my plane to bits. ... The aircraft was a mass of holes, windscreen all shot away and on fire. Crashed into the sea about three quarters of a mile off land near village. Aircraft sank in a few seconds."
Event
The strategic position of Port Moresby
The US officially entered the Second World War after Japan bombed Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941. Japan wanted to expand its territory across South-East Asia and the Pacific. The Allied forces—especially Australia and the US—wanted to prevent this.
On 23 January 1942, Japanese forces invaded Rabaul, in northern New Guinea. Several thousand soldiers and civilians, including nearly 1,200 Australians, died as a result.