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	Salamaua settlement, Papua New Guinea, Pictures
		Salamaua, small settlement in Papua New Guinea, located on the northeast coast of New Guinea, on the western shore of Huon Gulf.
		Salamaua is built on a tiny peninsula, partly enclosing a harbor, with rugged mountains rising inland.
		Salamaua fell to the Japanese in March 1942.
	www.greatestcities.com /Oceania/Papua_New_Guinea/Salamaua_settlement.html (155 words)

	Australians at War
		Salamaua was occupied by the Japanese in March 1942 and developed as a base area.
		Salamaua was occupied, without opposition, by the 42nd Australian Battalion on 11 September 1943.
		Salamaua was evacuated on 6 September to provide combatant reinforcements for Lae and approximately 5,800 troops were moved there.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/place_364.asp (249 words)

	Historical Narrative of USS Salamaua (CVE-96)
		Salamaua gunfire accounted for two planes during the late afternoon, but her hits failed to stop a third, which struck the Louisville 1500 yards off Salamaua's port beam.
		Almost immediately upon being struck by the suicide plane, Salamaua went to General Quarters and shot down two additional suicide divers, one of which scrashed into the sea close aboard her port quarter and the second of which was disintegrated by gnfire as it approached astern.
		Salamaua remained with the group until 3 June, steaming off Okinawa and furnishing direct air support to troops engaged in seizure and occupation of that island.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/CVE/cve96-history.html (2999 words)

	USS Salamaua (CVE-96) - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It was reclassified CVE-96 on 15 July 1943; renamed Salamaua on 6 November 1943; laid down under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1133) on 4 February 1944 by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Co., Vancouver, Wash.; launched on 22 April 1944; sponsored by Mrs.
		Following shakedown off the west coast, Salamaua transported planes and cargo from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, then returned to California, whence she conducted a similar run to Finschhafen, New Guinea.
		Before the end of the year, Salamaua completed two more "Magic Carpet" runs; then, with the new year, 1946, she prepared for inactivation.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /USS_Salamaua (554 words)

	USS Salamaua (CVE-96) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was reclassified CVE-96 on 15 July 1943; renamed Salamaua on 6 November 1943; laid down under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1133) on 4 February 1944 by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Co., Vancouver, Washington; launched on 22 April 1944; sponsored by Mrs.
		After guarding a second convoy into Tokyo Bay, she joined the “Magic Carpet” fleet; embarked veterans for transport to the United States; and disembarked them at Alameda on 3 October.
		She was decommissioned on 9 May 1946; struck from the Navy list on the 21st; and subsequently sold to the Zidell Ship Dismantling Co., Portland, Oreg., for scrapping on 18 November 1946.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Salamaua_(CVE-96) (579 words)

	Australian War Memorial - AJRP
		Thus the battle strength of the army units in the Lae, Salamaua area at the time was really weak, and in the face of the enemy who was making a decisive attack it was a though we were a candle in the wind.
		The greatest difficult in the defence of Salamaua was the deep valley of the Francisco River which flows between Salamaua and Kamiatum Hill.
		That was the landing of the Australian 9th Division at the mouth of the Buso River and the parachute landing on the Sanabu Plain of the Allied-Australian and American – 1st Division.
	ajrp.awm.gov.au /ajrp/ajrp2.nsf/pages/NT000091A6?openDocument (2377 words)

	Rural and Nature Tours
		Salamaua is rich in historical heritage - it was the location where the gold rush into the Bulolo region began.
		Salamaua was a major base for the Japanese Imperial Army, hence there is considerable evidence of this with Japanese guns still in place.
		Salamaua has to be one of the best kept secrets of this world and one of the most idyllic places ever to be.
	www.tourismmorobe.org.pg /rural_tours.html (737 words)

	Salamaua; An account of the battle, with maps.
		The 3rd Australian Division slowly fought its was towards Salamaua in a series of exacting and grim battles from April to August 1943.
		The Salamaua campaign was designed to screen the preparations for the Lae offensive and to act as a magnet to draw reinforcements from Lae to Salamaua.
		The focus of the operations towards Salamaua were to draw the Japanese away from Lae and Salamaua was not to be assaulted until after the Lae operation.
	au.geocities.com /thefortysecondinww2/level1/line1/salamaua.htm (2861 words)

	Salamaua
		Before its fall many of the surviving Japanese escaped including 5,000 by barge to Lae, 600 and by submarine to Rabaul and 200 on the overland trek to Lae.
		Village to the south of Salamaua peninsula with prewar airstrip, expanded by the Japanese.
		A third was salvaged in 1971 by the Japanese and is displayed at Yasukuni Jinja.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /provinces/png_salamaua.html (334 words)

	The Australians at War Film Archive - 48
		After the heavy fighting for Buna/Gona it was decided that if a similar defence was mounted then the enemy should be contained in the area rather than risk a protracted and bloody engagement to conquer the town.
		It was hoped that the attack on Salamaua would draw Japanese troops from the Lae area that was to be the main focus of the campaign.
		From there they undertook harassing attacks against the Japanese but with clear orders not to force their enemy to abandon the town as operations against Lae were beginning and it was preferred that the Salamaua defenders remain rather than reinforce other Japanese positions.
	www.australiansatwarfilmarchive.gov.au /aawfa/campaigns/Wau_Salamaua.html (397 words)

	The Making of "Assault on Salamaua" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Consequently, although Parer made no attempt to influence Cinesound or Movietone's editing of his material, for his stories on the guerillas of Timor and the Bismarck Sea battle, he still prepared elaborate dope sheets with detailed suggestions as to possible narrative structures that were very similar to the "scripts" written by Ron Maslyn Williams.
		No way was the Cinesound chief, who told me that "as soon as (he) saw it (he) knew (he) had one of the best shots of the War", going to let its effect be dissipated by placing it in the middle, whatever the dope sheets indicated.
		Above all, the newsreel Assault on Salamaua is vital evidence of the way these events were perceived at the time, and should be considered as such.
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/hfilm/SALAMAUA.html (3599 words)

	Papua New Guinea Forum - Salamaua, Beautiful Salamaua.
		Rivalry between Salamaua and Lae for the capital of New Guinea following the demise of Rabaul in the 1937 volcanic eruption was legendary.
		Salamaua sprang up before Lae and because it was the administrative and commercial centre of the District and also the port for the goldfields, it continued to dominate its sister across the Huon Gulf right up till WW11.
		The 3rd Australian Division slowly fought its way towards Salamaua in a series of exacting and grim battles from April to August 1943 in a campaign largely overshadowed by the Papuan campaign the preceded it and by the capture of Lae that followed.
	www.pngbd.com /forum/showthread.php?t=4155 (1620 words)

	USS Salamaua (CVE-96) - Definition, explanation
		It was reclassified CVE-96 on 15 July 1943; renamed Salamaua on 6 November 1943; laid down under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1133) on 4 February 1944 by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Co., Vancouver, Wash.; launched on 22 April 1944; sponsored by Mrs.
		Following shakedown off the west coast, Salamaua transported planes and cargo from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, then returned to California, whence she conducted a similar run to Finschhafen, New Guinea.
		She was decommissioned on 9 May 1946; struck from the Navy list on the 21st; and subsequently sold to the Zidell Ship Dismantling Co., Portland, Oreg., for scrapping on 18 November 1946.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/u/us/uss_salamaua__cve_96_.php (608 words)

	NEW GUINEA VOLUNTEER RIFLES WAR DIARY.
		MADANG and RAMU detachments advised of Japanese occupation of LAE and SALAMAUA.
		Salamaua patrols report Enemy High Command party of ten arrived per 4-engined flying boat at Salamaua 19th Apr 1942 and inspected Salamaua Aerodrome, W/T Station and Kila.
		Salamaua patrol report considerable benzine dumps in lots of 20 to 30 drums along drome road SALAMAUA between McDonald's junction and Logui cemetery.
	www.angelfire.com /alt2/prisonersofwar/ngvrwardiary.html (9466 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Salamaua
		Salamaua (German: Samoahafen) was a small town situated on the north-eastern coastline of Papua New Guinea part of Morobe province.
		The settlement was built on a minor isthmus between the coast with mountains on the inland side and a headland.
		In the 1920s prospective gold miners used Salamaua as a staging post to explore for gold in the inland areas.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Salamaua (208 words)

	Papua New Guinea Tourism Promotion Authority - Papua New Guinea Tourism Promotion Authority - Morobe Province
		Salamaua District also has war relics, swimming and snorkelling, and walking to Mount Tambu for spectacular views.
		Salamaua: Important during the war, this pretty area has war relics, fishing, swimming, snorkelling, and walking to Coastwatchers Ridge and Mount Tambu for spectacular views.
		Limestone Caves: Near Mumeng on the scenic drive to Bulolo are the Avilu Caves and the Avadedu burial ledges, above the Gangwe River.
	www.pngtourism.org.pg /png/export/sites/TPA/provinces/morobe/morobe.htm (1131 words)

	Admiral Nimitz is ordered to attack the Japanese with his aircraft carriers
		The capture of Lae and Salamaua would not only eliminate two sources of Allied air raids on Rabaul but also provide the Japanese with forward airstrips from which their attack on Port Moresby could be supported.
		In the pre-dawn darkness of 8 March 1942, and screened by heavy monsoonal rain, Japanese troops began wading ashore from landing barges at the town of Lae and the nearby village of Salamaua.
		He knew that the Japanese would be highly vulnerable to attack while they were engaged in unloading troops and supplies from their invasion transports, so he diverted Lexington and Yorktown to the southern coast of New Guinea, and launched his air strike against the Japanese beachheads from the Gulf of Papua.
	www.users.bigpond.com /pacificwar/carrierwarfare/Nimitz_carrier_raids.html (2225 words)

	5th AAF, August 1943
		In New Guinea, B-17's, B-24's, and B-25's bomb Salamaua, Lae, Nuk Nuk, Samoa Harbor at the mouth of the Francisco River, a barge near Reiss Point, and bridges on the Bogadjim-Ramu road.
		In New Guinea, more than 20 B-24's pound airfields in the Salamaua area; 12 B-25's hit barges in the Lae area and AA positions West of Borgen Bay on New Britain Island; and 6 A-20's bomb and strafe barges in Labu Lagoon and on Gasmata Island off the coast of New Britain Island.
		A-20's bomb Lae and hit the Salamaua area where enemy forces have abandoned positions on Mount Tambu and Komiatum Ridge and are manning last-ditch defensive position at Salamaua.
	www.kensmen.com /aug43.html (1406 words)

	PNG Trekking Adventures......The Black Cat Track (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		On the 27th October this year a team of us decided to experience for ourselves just what all the fuss was about.
		The village on the banks of this river had been notified that we were coming and had offered to make the raft.
		Salamaua has to be one of the best kept secrets in this world and one of the most idyllic places I have ever been.
	www.pngtrekking.com.pg /blackcat.htm (568 words)

	PATHWAYS FOR THE MOROBE PROVINCE BIBLIOGRAPHY
		This was because it was close to the border of British New Guinea and the Germans had easy access between the Carolinian islands and Samoa using the Morobe Harbour.
		In 1926 when gold was discovered in Wau the headquarters was moved to Salamaua as it became the centre of activity relating to the gold mine.
		Salamaua becomes a port of call for all activities relating to Wau gold fields.
	www.anu.edu.au /rspas/asal/morobe.htm (10834 words)

	Salamaua - Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The settlement was built on a minor isthmus between the coast with mountains on the inland side and a headland.
		In the 1920's prospective gold miners used Salamaua as a staging post to explore for gold in the inland areas.
		Gold was discovered at Wau and miners came from all over and made for the goldfields via the rough Black Cat Track.
	www.logicjungle.com /wiki/Salamaua (219 words)

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		Townships at Lae, Salamaua and Wau had prospered with the discovery of gold in the Wau-Bulolo Valley.
		Along with ANGAU personnel and six airmen manning a signalling station at Salamaua, they were to observe and report on Japanese landings, destroy buildings and supplies, and withdraw to operate as guerrillas.
		The first large patrol out of Salamaua was on 18 March when 60 marines led by four New Guineans marched to Komiatum, destroyed an NGVR supply dump and returned to base.
	ajrp.awm.gov.au /ajrp/remember.nsf/pages/NT000030A6?openDocument (1289 words)

	HMAS Salamaua - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMAS Salamaua (L-131) was a Balikpapan class LCH built by Walkers Limited at Maryborough in Queensland, launched on 27 July 1972 and commissioned on 19 October 1973.
		HMAS Salamaua was transferred to the Papua New Guinea Defence Force on 14 November 1974.
		This page was last modified 02:53, 31 May 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMAS_Salamaua (68 words)

	Definition of Salamaua - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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	www.m-w.com /dictionary/Salamaua (26 words)

	Harold's War - Part 2 - The Front - Again
		It was all down hill from the Summit to Salamaua past the Saddle, where we had had our first contact.
		We were gathering momentum towards the end of the Salamaua campaign.
		It was getting pretty close to the end and we were only about 4 or 5 miles from Salamaua (as the crow flies).
	home.iprimus.com.au /hhermie/hw/heh3_6.html (2752 words)

	THE HISTORY of the NEW GUINEA VOLUNTEER RIFLES
		Of the survivors of the RABAUL Invasion and those at SALAMAUA and LAE fully that percentage held Commissioned Rank of varying degrees in one or other Army Branch of the Services at the termination of hostilities.
		Not to be outdone; Coastal Detachment shortly afterwards did the trip from Lae to Salamaua and return in one weekend.
		That same morning the Japanese landed at Salamaua, and the bulk of the NGVR platoon fell back across the Fransisco River, leaving behind a few men to demolish the aerodrome and fire the petrol dump.
	www.angelfire.com /alt2/prisonersofwar/ngvr.html (4231 words)

	5th AAF, July 1943
		In New Guinea, B-25's pound Salamaua, Logui, and the Southeast bank of the Francisco River as Allied ground forces effect junction at Buigap Creek cutting communications between Salamaua and Mubo; a single B-24 bombs the village of Kela.
		B-25's bomb Lautem, Fuiloro, Koepang, and Tenau on Timor Island, the airfield and surrounding areas at Lae, New Guinea, and attack barges in the Wapelik and Cape Busching area of New Britain Island and villages on the Itni River on New Britain.
		In New Guinea, B-24's bomb Salamaua and Kela; B-25's hit barges off Huon Peninsula and villages in the Finschhafen area; and A-20's destroy several barges at Hanisch Harbor and Langemak Bay.
	www.kensmen.com /jul43.html (1347 words)

	DD-377 DANFS
		Infantry units pressed toward Salamaua Australians from Wau in the foothills of the Owen Stanley Range and Americans from Nassau Bay.
		On the 8th, she trained her guns on the isolated garrison at Lae and on the 15th the last remnants of that garrison pulled out.
		Salamaua, dependent on Lae, had already fallen and on the 16th Allied forces marched into Lae.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/destroy/dd377txt.htm (914 words)

	Admiral Nimitz is ordered to attack the Japanese with his aircraft carriers
		The capture of Lae and Salamaua would not only eliminate two sources of Allied air raids on Rabaul but also provide the Japanese with forward airstrips from which their attack on Port Moresby could be supported.
		In the pre-dawn darkness of 8 March 1942, and screened by heavy monsoonal rain, Japanese troops began wading ashore from landing barges at the town of Lae and the nearby village of Salamaua.
		He knew that the Japanese would be highly vulnerable to attack while they were engaged in unloading troops and supplies from their invasion transports, so he diverted Lexington and Yorktown to the southern coast of New Guinea, and launched his air strike against the Japanese beachheads from the Gulf of Papua.
	users.bigpond.com /pacificwar/carrierwarfare/Nimitz_carrier_raids.html (2225 words)

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