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 ...
It’s 1942, and Japan is on a mission to dominate the Pacific, zeroing in on Tulagi and Port Moresby as key footholds. With a ...
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 ...
The first torpedo hit the USS Lexington's port side at about 11 a.m. on the last day of the Battle of the Coral Sea, a critical point in the United States' war against Japan. Within minutes, another ...
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 ...