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	Diocese of Aitape - General Information
		Aitape is a fairly remote and quiet town on the north coast in Sandaun (formerly West Sepik) Province, with approximately 8000 inhabitants.
		Aitape is the principal town and port of the district, one of the four districts of Sandaun Province.
		Aitape is small, but has all basic facilities, including 240 V power (in general 24 hours), telephone, a bank, a post-office, a courthouse and a police station, a supermarket and many tradestores, a petrol station, two airstrips, two secondary schools, a mission office and a (rural) hospital.
	www.global.net.pg /diocese_of_aitape/aitape/gen.html (644 words)

	The Aitape 1998 tsunami: Reconstructing the event from interviews and field mapping.
		Aitape is on the north coast, 160 km east of the international border.
		Aitape is a small commercial center, district administrative headquarters and port, served by regular air services and accessible by road from Wewak in the east, and by 4-wheel-drive track and road from Vanimo in the west, when the weather is dry.
		Survivors of the Aitape tsunami interpreted the thunderous boom and the roaring sound to be evidence that the tsunami was caused by a bomb that had been dropped by a low-flying jet plane.
	www.pmel.noaa.gov /tsunami/PNG/Upng/Davies020411 (9852 words)

	Aitape
		In April 1944 the 32nd Division landed without opposition in the Aitape area, in conjunction with the main landing at Hollandia.
		The object of this operation was to secure and hold the Tadji Airfield and to establish light naval facilities at Aitape to support further operations against the Japanese, who later counter attacked at the Driniumor River.
		Since the 1974 recoveries at Tadji, one wreck this B-25 was selected for display at the school as a WWII Memorial for the town, and represents one of the last complete American wrecks in the Aitape area.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /provinces/png_aitape.html (318 words)

	Aitape (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Aitape we found our first real evidence of the tsunami wave: 3.5 m runup and inundation to over 150 m inland.
		The wave was the smallest further west in the bay, the region protected by a headland.
		There was also evidence of large coral bouders that had been moved around by the force of the wave.
	www.usc.edu /dept/tsunamis/PNG/aitape.html (98 words)

	Journey: Aitape
		Aitape is one of the oldest European settlements on the northern half of the PNG mainland.
		Aitape became the birth-place of the New Guinea Catholic mission.
		As soon as Aitape had become a diocese in its own right (1966) its Bishop, Bishop Ignatius Doggett, an ex-student of Holy Cross, Ryde, approached the Patrician Brothers about staffing the diocese' high school: St Ignatius.
	www.patricianbrothers.com /patwebsite/australia/journey/aitape/aitape.html (985 words)

	Defending the Driniumor: Covering Force Operations in New Guinea, 1944
		It is true that MacArthur's Aitape invasion in April 1944 caught the Japanese totally unprepared, and it is also true that Ultra-derived intelligence revealed to the Allies the Japanese plan of attack against the U.S. covering force along the Driniumor River, about twenty miles east of Aitape.
		Aitape was about 200 kilometers east of the major Japanese base at Hollandia, but nearly 650 kilometers west of the nearest Allied ground forces.
		The reports, based on extensive Japanese patrolling in the Aitape vicinity, correctly noted that the Aitape airfields were the center of the American position and described a semicircular defensive perimeter about ten kilometers east of the airstrips.
	www-cgsc.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/Drea/Drea.asp (19797 words)

	The World at War
		At Aitape to Wewak, northern New Guinea 1944-45
		By January 1945 ‘C squadron of the 2/4 Armoured Regiment (AR) had moved up by coastal vessels to the Aitape area and was in reserve at Rocky Point 2/11Btn’s HQ position.
		The AIF 6 Division had simultaneously tackled the difficult jungle, amphibiously traversed the coastline and conducted mountain warfare with skill, economy, effectively eliminating the large malaria-ridden Japanese occupying garrison adding to their laurels of desert battles in North Africa.
	worldatwar.net /article/australiantank/guinea44.html (1314 words)

	Weekender page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Her elder sister was married to a man from Aitape and when she was expecting her fourth child, she invited my wife to go and help her look after the children.
		I am very glad she survived Aitape, otherwise I would not have my lovely wife, but she is not glad at all.
		She was sent to Aitape to help look after her sister and the children, and she feels that since they died, while she is alive, she failed them.
	www.thenational.com.pg /0114/w7.htm (2276 words)

	Disaster in Aitape - New Guinea
		Aitape was also hit, but the Aitape point saved the town.
		The doctors from the bush area of the diocese of Aitape flew over to the coast to help in the emergency situation.
		Giles, parish priest of Sissano was in Aitape at the Lepro village at the time of the trmor and tidal wave.
	www.ofm.org /3/news/N19nwgn.html (315 words)

	Australian Military Units
		Aitape had been occupied by the Japanese in 1942.
		Recaptured by an American landing on 22 April 1944, it was developed as a base area to support the continuing drive towards the Philippines.
		Although their primary role was the defence of the base facilities at Aitape, Australian commanders opted to advance to the east of Aitape, towards Wewak, to destroy the remnants of the Japanese 18th Army.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/event_280.asp (448 words)

	PAPUA NEW GUINEA RECONNAISSANCE OF JULY 17, 1998 TSUNAMI, NOVEMBER 15-24, 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the Aitape region, it was described as strong enough to make walking difficult and to knock objects over.
		The matron at the Aitape hospital reported that many elderly survived the tsunami because they got into boats and headed toward the back of the lagoon or moved to higher ground after the earthquake.
		Aitape, the largest town in the area, had damage and injuries from the tsunami, but no one considered that other areas were hit harder.
	www.humboldt.edu /~geodept/Faculty/Dengler/final_PNG_report.html (2334 words)

	s71e in fm98
		To monitor the aftershocks, three temporary field stations were installed around the lagoon and one permanent seismic station at Aitape to improve earthquake location, estimate the extent and nature of the fault and provide parameters to model the tsunami.
		The severe damage and extreme wave heights were confined to a relatively short (30 km) stretch of coast between Aitape and Sissano Villages and specially large along the sandbar the outer margin of Sissano Lagoon.
		The anomalous character of the tsunami stems from the combination of extreme run-up in relation to the size of the earthquake, and rapid lateral decay along the shoreline.
	www.agu.org /cgi-bin/SFgate/SFgate?&listenv=table&multiple=1&range=1&directget=1&application=fm98&database=/data/epubs/wais/indexes/fm98/fm98&maxhits=200&="S71E" (1038 words)

	Aitape Radio (VZX) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Aitape is situated on a rocky headland overlooking the islands of Tunleo and Seleo, halfway along the 400 kilometre coastline between what was then the border of New Guinea and the Sepik River.
		Aitape radio station and officers' dwelling quarters, 1931.
		The station at Aitape was originally built to keep local administrators in touch with Government headquarters in Rabaul, but it later served as a communications centre for prospectors, outlying plantations and police outposts.
	www.satellite-terminals.com /radio_history/vzx.htm (278 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Papua New Guinea: emergency relief, rehabilitation, disaster preparedness & ...
		Post disaster programmes initiated after the Aitape tidal wave in 1998, including a water and sanitation project, a community health project, a nutrition assessment and the reinforcement of disaster response capacity, were completed in late 1999.
		The Water and Sanitation project of the Aitape Tsunami Post-Disaster Programme which began in November 1998 was brought to a close in October 1999 with all basic objectives achieved.
		The revision and planning for the third phase of the programme, CBSR training for the PNGRCS and affected communities in the Aitape area and beyond is in its final stage.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/OCHA-64DF35?OpenDocument (1526 words)

	Papua New Guinea
		He was the bishop of the Diocese of Aitape in the West Sepik Province and had been a student of the Patricians at Holy Cross College at Ryde.
		Brother Charles then became something of a trouble-shooter as he was asked to be principal of Aitape High School (the government high school) and then Lumi High (also a government school) so that he might be able to lift them out of the difficulties they were experiencing.
		Over the years so far the Brothers have been involved the several ministries: teaching at Aitape, Nuku, Lumi, and Wewak; health workers in Aitape; mission maintenance; brick and tank manufacturing; and with Callan Services for the disabled in Wewak.
	www.patricianbrothers.com /patwebsite/png/png.html (587 words)

	Unaccounted-for servicemen identified and returned (World War II) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Blakey was commanding officer of the 305th Airdrome Squadron near Aitape, New Guinea, when he was last seen driving a jeep on June 10, 1944, near the unit's POW stockade.
		The area surrounding Aitape was reported to be under Japanese control.
		In April 1989 the U.S. Embassy in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, was notified that a district officer in Aitape Sanaun province was in possession of remains believed to be those of an American Serviceman.
	www.dtic.mil /dpmo/news/1999/990305_osd_pr089_wwii.htm (518 words)

	An amazing story of a son's tribute to his father. .
		Later in Aitape he pulled my fat out of the fire (more on that to come.) One thing about the New Guinea nationals (they do not like to be called natives) is that they have very Anglicized first names and more oriental surnames.
		On the way into Aitape the pilot, on the intercom, announced that because of rain, the Aitape airfield was closed and we would be landing at Tadji.
		All I will say about the Aitape hotel is that it is very nice and very expensive and the nicest thing I can say about the fellow who ran it was that he was a devout capitalist.
	www.kilroywashere.org /009-Pages/JimMcCracken/JimMcCracken.html (6044 words)

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		New Guinea - The beachhead perimeter at Aitape is reinforced.
		In the Aitape sector, the landing force meets unexpected resistance while trying to extend its perimeter.
		In the Aitape beachhead area the Americans in the Nyaparake sector withdraw to a new line.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/history/marshall/military/wwii/50.years.ago/jbd/may1944.txt (5432 words)

	10/19/00 -- Aitape-Vanimo road link soon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Aitape west Local Level Government (LLG) has made available K100,000 for the Ramo-Sumo section of the road.
		Aitape Lumi District Administrator Martin Salmartin, Deputy Administrator Peter Simbi and other government officials attended the project launch.
		West Aitape LLG Coordinator, Pascal Urum who was unable to attend the launch, said the K100,000 was allocated under the 1998 LLG west road funding budget.
	forests.org /archive/png/aivanrdl.htm (342 words)

	Tidal Wave at Aitape, PNG
		A tidal wave, estimated at 10 metres high, struck the beach west of Aitape on a front of about 20 kilometres at 1930 hrs, Friday, 17 July.
		The National Disaster Organization has responded quickly and is establishing aid in doctors, nurses, medicines and army teams, with helicopters and aircraft from Australian and PNG sources.
		The single helicopter m Aitape from Saturday took to the air at first light to continue the transport of injured to hospital- Early today three Australian Hercules aircraft arrived with medical staff and supplies.
	www.ofm.org /3/news/N20nwgn.html (579 words)

	CNN - Tidal wave destroys villages, kills 70 in Papua New Guinea - July 18, 1998
		The massive wave was caused by a magnitude-7.0 earthquake that struck the coast near the seaport town of Aitape.
		The Aitape provincial hospital in nearby Vanimo, which had been closed because of funding shortages, had been reopened to treat the injured.
		Another Catholic priest in Aitape told Reuters that three villages, housing 7,500 people, and a Catholic mission had all been destroyed.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/asiapcf/9807/18/tidal.wave (541 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wrecked as an effective fighting force, its remnants are now straggling back toward Wewak, drifting into the foothills, floundering along jungle trails.
		The problem was solved by the quick seizure of the Tadji strip at Aitape, near the coast, which Adachi had left lightly held in his mad scramble to provide a welcoming committee for us at Wewak.
		Allied forces at Aitape provided a screen between the new base and the main strength of the Jap force.
	home.pcisys.net /~pwebber/31_id/text/aitape_victory_news.txt (433 words)

	Driniumor River
		Located to the east of Aitape and Tadji.
		The west shore of the river was the American perimeter around Aitape, encompassing the town, harbor and Tadji airfield.
		In further attacks during August the Japanese forces around Aitape were thoroughly defeated, and the scattered remnants fled to the east and south to join the main Japanese force between the mouth of the Sepik River and Wewak.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /provinces/png_driniumor.html (431 words)

	CNN - At least 71 killed in Papua New Guinea tidal wave - July 18, 1998
		The flood waves were powered by a magnitude seven earthquake centered on the Pacific Ocean seabed close to Aitape, Australian seismologists said.
		Papua New Guinea government spokesman Chris Hawkins told CNN that the death count stood at 71, and that the government was trying to get emergency supplies, food and shelter to the disaster area.
		Father Austen, a Catholic priest who runs the mission health services in the Aitape area, said between 300 and 500 people were missing, many of them children.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/asiapcf/9807/18/tidal.wave.02 (760 words)

	Lieutenant. Mac McCracken's story!
		The situation was that MacArthur had bypassed an army of Japs in Wewak New Guinea and made an easy landing in Aitape and Hollandia.
		Out from Aitape there were three rivers, the one in the center of the three was called the Driniumor, the one closest to Aitape was called the "River X", with one outpost that came into play in my story.
		The headquarters that had control of all these American units on the line was a corps HQ which was in Aitape.
	www.kilroywashere.org /009-Pages/JimMcCracken/McCracken.html (3304 words)

	Jock Marshall: One Armed Warrior - CHAPTER FOUR
		Startled to see myself in it!' and a lot of magazines and books, good clean tank water and a tin of coffee, he immediately decided that if the expedition came and it were possible to lease the Government buildings, this would be its first base.
		The companions and their long line of recruits fought their way back to Aitape over the jagged ranges again, where Jock discovered that the next steamer for England or Sydney would not be calling for three months.
		Jock walked the remaining seventy miles to Aitape, to be greeted by Charlie Gough, the local store-keeper - 'You're supposed to be dead!' It was known he had left with Parer but, having heard nothing since, they had been looking out for bodies and wreckage.
	www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /bsparcs/exhib/marshall/m_ch4.htm (6748 words)

	Wycliffe - Features - Swept Away - Fall 2001
		For many participants it was a lifelong dream to see their language in written form—bringing them one step closer to the life-changing experience of reading God’s Word in their own language.
		Since the Aitape West Translation Project targets the western language groups, no infor-mation had been sent to anyone from Joachim’s language group or any of the others in that area.
		The Aitape West Translation Project cannot include another language into their project due to the lack of facilities and advisers.
	www.wycliffe.org /features/IOW273-4.htm (1826 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Papua New Guinea: Tidal Wave Situation Report No. 5
		The long awaited Nutritional Survey was concluded on 29 October and the data contained in the questionnaires is currently being evaluated by the Department of Health in Port Moresby.
		In the meantime, the Aitape District Disaster Committee proposes that there will be one last food distribution for this year and nothing further until January.
		The Social Worker arrived in Aitape on 18 November and has met key personnel involved in welfare and counselling activities including District officials, NGOs and the Diocese.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/0d8bb8e94a817fdfc12566e1004d7be8 (1125 words)

	Donors for PNG Tsunami Relief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Aitape Disaster Relief Fund (PNG) Deposits may be made to the Papua New Guinea Banking Corporation.
		Aitape Disaster Victims Fund (PNG) Funds may be telegraphically transferred to account number 11001988, ANZ Bank, Waigani, NCD, Papua New Guinea (Fax: ++(675)-325-3451).
		Aitape Relief and Restoration Committee (PNG) Donations can be deposited directly into the account set up by The National Aitape Relief and Restoration Committee.
	www.ssc.uwo.ca /anthropology/jorgensen/aitapedonors.htm (1318 words)

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