Cape Gloucester

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Cape Gloucester

cape, New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea

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World War II
The encirclement of Rabaul
…thereby distracting Japanese attention from Cape Gloucester, on the northwestern coast, where a major landing was made on December 26. By January 16, 1944, the airstrip at Cape Gloucester had been captured and defense lines set up. Talasea, halfway to Rabaul, fell in March 1944. The conquest of western New…
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…thereby distracting Japanese attention from Cape Gloucester, on the northwestern coast, where a major landing was made on December 26. By January 16, 1944, the airstrip at Cape Gloucester had been captured and defense lines set up. Talasea, halfway to Rabaul, fell in March 1944. The conquest of western New…
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