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

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DDay New Guinea - Part of Australia at War week on WW2TV
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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.
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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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@WW2TV 2 года назад

I love Phillip Bradley as a guest - always sincere and knowledgeable. If you have enjoyed this show, please don't forget to click like, leave a comment for other viewers and if you have not done so already please SUSBSCRIBE so you don't miss our next streams. You can also become a member of this channel and support me financially here ru-vid.com/show-UCUC1nmJGHmiKtlkpA6SJMeA. Links to any books discussed, WW2TV merchandise, our social media pages and other WW2TV shows to watch can all be found in the full RU-vid description. Lastly, my own book Angels of Mercy is always available online - more info here www.ddayhistorian.com/angels-of-mercy.html

@gergemall 6 месяцев назад

My dad was a gunners mate on an LST in New Guinea and the Philippines 🇵🇭. He said the fierce Japanese soldiers were very fearful of the Australian bush soldiers who were EXCEPTIONALLY SKILLED in the jungles. God Bless the Greatest Generation’ I’m 68 years old and learning more about where my father was. I found out from an uncle in 99 that my father was on the front lines in many of these battles in the South Pacific. 🇺🇸☮️

@GreenGibbon Месяц назад

I'm Aussie, and worked in PNG in 2018 and 2019. I travelled through many of the places mentioned in the video. The sheer ruggedness of the mountain ranges was genuinely jaw dropping. Frightening to think of fighting your way through this country. Genuine respect for the ANZACs.

@russwilliams4207 Год назад

My father was in the 42nd AIF that marched into Lae after the Battle of the Ridges campaign (wounded at Charlies Hill) approaching Salamaua. I have had the privilege of hiking through all this country. Very humbling experience

@BroncoMoeJoe Год назад

Great presentation, I learned a lot! I spent 3 years near Lae in the early 70’s as a young teenager from the US. I remember going to a black sand beach that was closer to Lae than the landing zone. There was a Japanese Maru that lay rusting on the beach. Also remember jumping off a bridge across the Busu river and coming to the surface way down the river and swimming to shore from there. It was an extremely fast river as they stated. Fun’s times, glad I survived.

@gergemall 6 месяцев назад

Thank you

@alexparky8013 2 года назад

Phillip is a superb guest, great show.

@lindsayswanson9599 2 месяца назад

I have lived in PNG for 50 years of which the last 10 have been in Lae. Beautiful and a very dense rugged country and I can only imagine how difficult it was for the troops to traverse towards Lae from 22 miles down the coast. Excellent book and now this great documentary.

@georgewnewman3201 2 года назад

I knew about the fighting around Buna, Wewak and Lae, but not much about Lae, thanks for the spotlight, Woody. And thanks to Philip for presenting this.

@thomasmadden8412 2 года назад

Phillip was as good as his first appearance, and I am sure we will be seeing him again. I am enjoying learning more about New Guinea and role of the Australians.

@cheesenoodles8316 5 месяцев назад

Excellent subject & guest.

@USAACbrat 7 месяцев назад

The Us fielded a 75 pack howitzer that 2 mules could transport. Was in use in Burma at this time.

@scottgrimwood8868 2 года назад

Another outstanding WW2TV show. I am so glad to learn so much about the Australian experience in World War 2.

@ThisBloke760 5 месяцев назад

My dad was in the 2/17 battalion 9th Division who landed at Red Beach. Later they also landed on Scarlet Beach in the finschhaven/Sattleburg campaign. It’s a pity MacArthur didn’t allow more troops than one brigade in finschhaven, like he did in Lae. If it wasn’t the 9th division they would have been overwhelmed and pushed back into the sea. McArthur actually underestimated the number of Japanese troops and it took a lot of pleading from the Aussies to get the transport to land another brigade and tanks.

@StewartHall-jj7wt 6 месяцев назад

Thanks, Paul. As always your approach to ww2 events is second to none.

@WW2TV 6 месяцев назад

Thank you

@TheVigilant109 2 года назад

Wonderful presentation. Many thanks

@alandean3472 2 года назад

Another terrific guest & episode during Australia at War week ; am learning a lot !

@peterwhittle57 Год назад

I'm reading this book at the moment and find it as good as the first book about Shaggy Ridge. Amazing read about human grit and determination and military planing. Thank you for all your hard work putting books like this together.

@mathewkelly9968 2 года назад

33:07 lmao when an Australian says "our good mate" or "your mate (insert name)" it isn't a term of endearment ....... thought I'd clear that up for any non Australians .

@jefesalsero 2 года назад

I reckon you got that right mate. Probably better than being referred to as a "Wanker". Lol

@philipbrown2514 19 дней назад

Or septic tank?@@jefesalsero

@patm8622 2 года назад

We rarely hear about the actions of Commonwealth forces in the Far East . This presentation helps to put that right with some fantastic details and insights from a great historian. Enjoy !

@Bochi42 Год назад

Really liked Woody pointing out how perfect the parachute jump was. Details like that are important and emphasize the role of training before military operations.

@CFarnwide 2 года назад

Incredibly interesting information about the para-frag bombs! Thank you for that bit!

@mathewkelly9968 2 года назад

14:24 so is this like the predecessor of cluster bombs ? I knew General Kenny had a good reputation here in Australia , but had no idea of the details why that was the case untill I started watching your channel .

@chipeling8386 Год назад

You should consider getting Bradley back to talk about the Salamaua campaign (he has a book on the subject). Salamaua was a very neat piece of soldiering - a deliberate feint designed to (successfully) draw the Japanese forward from Lae to defend Salamaua, a prerequisite for the success at Lae and Nadzab covered in this program.

@WW2TV Год назад

You can always make use of the Playlists and Search functions. Phillip has already been on to talk about this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1no5BeRVhKk.html

@chipeling8386 Год назад

@@WW2TV Thanks mate for taking the time to reply. I did check the playlists and use the search function however I am NOT referring to the raid on Salamaua (a quite minor earlier incident) but to the major campaign (at east 2 brigades plus an Independent company) in the area south and southwest of Salamaua which was in fact still going on when the landing took place west of Lae.

@thegreatdominion949 2 года назад

There were also Val dive bombers involved in some of the air attacks on the invasion fleet which probably did more damage than the Betty torpedo bombers. One of the LSTs took a direct bomb hit from a Val and two of the escorting destroyers were damaged by bomb near misses in the same raid.

@judnichols8041 2 года назад

Fantastic, Thanks

@WW2TV 2 года назад

Thank you too!

@allangibson2408 2 года назад

The Japanese Army submarines were supply ships only - they were not fitted with torpedo tubes. Note - Japanese ARMY Submarines. The Japanese Army also operated aircraft carriers independent of the Navy (they actually had more aircraft carriers than the Navy). The Army carriers were equivalent to the US Navy escort carriers and were primarily used to deliver aircraft to forward air bases.

@troystaunton254 Год назад

1:01:35 I’ve long been of the belief that once McArthur decided to sideline Australian troops towards the end of 1943. The 6th division should have been moved to Burma, the 7th division and militia should have been used to effect in Bougainville and New Guinea regions. The 9th should have been sent straight to Europe to participate in the Normandy invasion. I forget their names but a couple of Montgomery’s general staff lamented the fact they didn’t have use of the Australian 9th division for Normandy, and as we see here they’d have battle experience with amphibious assaults. Now the dday invasion went about as perfectly as you could hope, but it speaks to the quality of the 9th that they were wanted there, and if they weren’t considered to be required in the pacific then they earned the right to finish what they started at tobrook and el alemain.

@markhorrell9213 5 месяцев назад

This and several other photo's were hung in the foyer of the Lae RSL right up to when we left in 1974

@KeithLyons-z4h 8 месяцев назад

Please let me correct you LST's are Landing Ship Transport .They had a bow which could open up and are able to carry about 5 sheman tanks and support munitions for 12 weeks. Or as troopi transport could carry as much as 1000 infantry.

@Bochi42 Год назад

I also love the details of the parafrag bombs. Going through 2 inches of wood at 100 feet really helps me understand how they would just shred the aluminum skin on airplanes. I imagine fragments left on the field would also puncture a few tires as well if not all picked up. So would at the least create some time consuming work of walking the runway for the maintenance guys.

@ThisBloke760 Год назад

My dad was there with the 2/17th. They had it far worse at Jevivanang behind Finschhafen

@garrypoole472 5 месяцев назад

Hi Mate my Dad Arthur Poole he was. In Wewak for WW11 he was in 2/4 Matilda Tanks as a Gunner and fitting with Japanese

@Bochi42 Год назад

The airborne engineering unit is fascinating! And something I had never heard about before in all my reading. So many books just say "Then an airstrip was built" and move on.

@briancooper2112 11 месяцев назад

Just got book!

@markhorrell9213 5 месяцев назад

Our friends- Kelly familys farms off to the high right of the air field

@kirbyculp3449 11 месяцев назад

I wonder if that Japanese book has been translated?

@jamescoleakaericunderwood2503 Год назад

We didn't even have maps of the coastline...our maps were from National Geographic! It was learn as you go reef's and such...

@anthonyeaton5153 3 месяца назад

Why is it called D Day? That bit of terminology wasn’t used until the Invasion of Western Europe in mid 1944. You Aussies like using the DDay term beginning with Gallipoli and then into early WW2. Do you have a deep feeling of having missed out on the real DDay?

@WW2TV 3 месяца назад

You're quite wrong on this I'm afraid. The earliest use of the term D-Day by any army that the U.S. Army Center of Military History and the Oxford English Dictionary have been able to find was during World War I: its first recorded use was in Field Order Number 9, First Army, American Expeditionary Forces, dated 7 September 1918: "The First Army will attack at H-Hour on D-Day with the object of forcing the evacuation of St. Mihiel salient. But beyond then, nearly all invasions in WWII were called DDay, it's just that its use at Normandy came to overshadow all other uses. Apology accepted Oh and BTW, plenty of Aussies in Normandy - mostly on the sea and in the air but a few on the ground as part of British units

@Ebergerud 2 года назад

MacArthur's decision to leave the Australian Army behind in early 1944 - just at the time when the Aussie Army was reorganizing and was very good indeed - was a "no brainer." MacArthur had agreed from day one that Aussie troops would operate under Aussie command at the operational level. By the spring of 1944 shipping was replacing manpower as the "bottleneck" so MacArthur had more men than ships and someone wasn't going to be used. MacArthur followed the principle of "unity of command" and chose US forces. Any commander would have done that. So Aussie forces were left behind until operations in the Indies in 1945 - and Aussie units were scheduled for use in a possible 1946 invasion of Honshu. What I don't fully understand is why Australia didn't offer to send a corps to Europe - Montgomery would certainly have wanted them.

@allangibson2408 2 года назад

The same shipping problems in the Pacific preventing movement of Australian troops to the Philippines would be even more severe trying to get troops to Europe. Australia just didn’t have any merchant ships and Britain had already lost half their fleet by 1942 (that also comes up in discussion of getting food into India in 1943).

@Ebergerud 2 года назад

You might be right. I was just thinking that if it was a matter of moving manpower a couple of runs by the Queen Mary could have brought over a division - that's how the AIF got from Palestine to Oz in early 42. If they would have needed to bring all of the equipment to make units "Europe ready" that's different. As it was, the American "guesstimate" about how many ground troops would be needed in France and Germany was correct - by a razor thin margin. I'm sure Monty would have loved an Australian corps. Nobody fights a perfect war of course, but it's painful to think of what could have been done with more landing craft and a very few more liberty ships - heaven knows we had a surplus of aircraft, warships and vehicles of all types. For example, if the Allies could have maybe junked Anzio and launched the invasion of Southern France on about June 21 - that would have caused some problems in Berlin. Never know of course. As far as the Aussie infantry, I'm not sure what they were thinking. It was a good army, with good officers. But I wonder how eager our guys were in their heart to hit the beach at Iwo. I know morale in Oz and NZ forces was pretty low on Bougainville and New Britain, but it might have beat the horrible fighting in Europe or Okinawa. Of course they did grab Balikpapan in mid-45 when, as I recall, oil wasn't going to Japan anymore. I've talked to a lot of WWII infantrymen and never met one that was sad to hear that the war was over. So maybe heavy duty boredom would have been preferable to heavy duty combat to some young men. (Not that any front lacked danger - about 15% of our fatalities came in training. "Mopping up" was never fun.)

@sulevisydanmaa9981 Год назад

@eric bergerud CONGRATS on your 2 excellent Pac war studies TOUCHED BY FIRE & FIRE IN THE SKY. Bought & read them both 20 yrs ago. Essential reading. Question : why hardly 0 lectures or other presentations by you on the forum ? Suggest correct the situation. How about this man interrogating you on Pac air war in partiicular ? Question 2) : do you know how to get in touch w the correct STEVE BIRDSALL - the 5th AF specialist historian of FLYING BUCCANEERS ? (many namesakes exist, he s an aussie, rite ; still kickin , I hope ..) Fanmail from Finland ...o ' er

@Ebergerud Год назад

@@sulevisydanmaa9981 Thanks for the kind words. No one has ever asked me to participate on a channel - Military History Visualized a couple of years back did a long segment on what was basically Touched with Fire. Actually there's a lot of good stuff on YTube now. (I really like Drachinifel - it's kind of soft core, but he knows ships and knows how to give a talk.) I have posted some stuff about the Pacific War, but the good channels get a lot of posts. I'd be glad to participate, but I can't invite myself. For the last year I've become a Ukraine War junkie. I wrote two books about a war the US won. I also wrote two books about Vietnam - a war we lost. And now it appears that the people that brought us Iraq, Syria, the Arab Spring (and the utter destruction of Libya for no reason) want to drag us into a shooting war with on of the few major nation we've never had a war with - Russia. This scares me - and it should scare others more than it does. Regardless, thanks for the note - do appreciate it.

@sulevisydanmaa9981 Год назад

@@Ebergerud RUMMY - the war bunny (in)famously said :" I hate the q-word ..." The current 1 do is a quagmire by know while expecting it to go "nu-Q-la" - just as sonny-Bush pronounces the foretold Gog-Magog war, now more than brewing ...The reason Khadaffi ended in a ditch was he wanted out of the petro$$$ cartel by starting his own dinar system. 2) So, you have no connection to the right STEVE BIRDSALL ? I have suggested to this "channeller" to get him repeatedly. Now I, likewise, must recommend U, cause U, most obviously, have not read Norm Mailer s "Advertisements 4 myself " ... There are armies of night all around still in action - NOT in inaction, (and not only @ Nara s deer park, Nippon...) - probably a new "The Naked & The Dead" in the making. LOOK @ the (in)famous frescoes @ DIA entrance/exit hall ...nowadays removed as 2 TRUE ... Come on, invite yourself. Don t be that way. Don t be modest ! These 3-rate clowns are stealing the Big Show (by Pierre Closterman) ... SEMPER FINN