Milne Bay – As We Lived It (3rd Edition)

Description

Title: Milne Bay – As We Lived It

Author: Various

Condition: Mint

Edition: 3rd Edition

Publication Date: 2006

ISBN: 9780977599028

Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 197 pages

Comments: This book is a detailed history of the Battle of Milne Bay during World War Two as seen through the eyes of the soldiers of the 7th Australian Infantry Brigade Signals section. 

The Battle of Milne Bay, also known as Operation RE by the Japanese, was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Japanese marines attacked the Australian base at Milne Bay on the eastern tip of New Guinea on 25 August 1942, and fighting continued until the Japanese retreated on 5 September 1942. However armed resistance ended on 7 September 1942. The battle was the first in the Pacific campaign in which Allied troops decisively defeated Japanese land forces, forcing them to withdraw and completely abandon their strategic objective.

Japanese forces had experienced local setbacks before: their first attack on Wake Island was thrown back, and American Marines defeated the Japanese on Guadalcanal in the Battle of the Tenaru, four days before the Battle of Milne Bay began. But unlike Milne Bay, these actions did not result in complete Japanese withdrawal and the abandonment of the military campaign.