DDay New Guinea - The Australian Amphibious Landing at Lae - 1943

DDay New Guinea - Part of Australia at War week on WW2TV
With Phillip Bradley
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   • Australia and New Zealand in WWII  
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"Java is heaven, Burma is hell, but you never come back alive from New Guinea"
Japanese military saying

The capture of Lae was the most complex operation for the Australian army in the Second World War. In many ways it was also a rehearsal for the D-Day invasion of France, with an amphibious landing combined with the first successful large-scale Allied airborne operation of the war.

Pur guest Phillip Bradley will share the extraordinary stories of the Australian, American and Japanese participants in this battle, and of the fight against the cloying jungle, the raging rivers and the soaring mountain ranges that made New Guinea such a daunting battlefield.

Additional resources
Phillip's previous appearance    • The Battle for Shaggy Ridge - New Gui...  
Phillip's Facebook page   / d-day-new-guinea-352399701978052  
Wartime footage    • Aussie & US forces drive Japanese fro...  

Other shows about New Guinea and New Britain
The Japanese Attack on Rabaul    • The Japanese Attack on Rabaul 1942  
The Battle for Shaggy Ridge    • The Battle for Shaggy Ridge - New Gui...  

D-Day New Guinea: The Extraordinary Story of the Battle for Lae and the Greatest Combined Airborne and Amphibious Operation of the Pacific War by Phillip Bradley
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UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/D-Day-New-Gu...
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