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The raid on Lae's airfields left one plane short of takeoff
A diversion in New Guinea at Salamaua becomes a five-month bloodletting as Allies bait the Japanese - did they make it in time?
The raid on Lae's airfields left one plane short of takeoff
In this episode, we follow the Allied deception that fixed Japanese forces at Salamaua while planners prepared to capture Lae. The story covers the decisions, operations, and human cost of using a peninsula as bait - and asks whether the gamble paid off.
Date: 14 September 1943
Location: Salamaua and Lae, New Guinea
Person: Lieutenant General Sir Edmund Herring
Person: General Douglas MacArthur
Event: Allied…
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