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Landing at Nassau Bay
The Landing at Nassau Bay was an amphibious landing by Allied forces at Nassau Bay during the New Guinea campaign of World War II that took place between 30 June and 6 July 1943. The landing was undertaken so that Allies could secure a beachhead to establish a supply point to shorten their supply lines for the proposed attack on Salamaua as part of the Salamaua-Lae campaign.
==Background==
Upon the recommendation of Commander Morton C. Mumma, the Allied South West Pacific Area GHQ determined that a beachhead at Nassau Bay would greatly shorten the supply line for Australian and American troops for the proposed attack against Salamaua.
During the night of 28 June 1943, the 162nd Infantry Regiment's Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon placed lights upon islands lying offshore between Nassau Bay and Mageri Point to guide the invasion flotilla. Colonel Archibald R. MacKechnie flew to the Bulolo Valley for a conference with General Stanley Savige to discuss the proposed landings. D Company of the 2/6th Australian Infantry Battalion from Lababia Ridge was required to march to the mouth of the Bitoi River to divert Japanese attention from Nassau Bay. Also, one platoon of D Company 2/6th Australian Infantry Battalion was sent to the landing beach to set up lights to guide the landing craft. A Company of the Papuan Infantry Battalion, reconnoitered to Cape Dinga just south of Nassau Bay for the southern flank.
Prior to the landing the USAAF Fifth Air Force's B-25s bombed Imperial Japanese strong points along the Bitoi River, and A-20s pounded a supply dump on the southern side of Nassau Bay on 29 June. The amphibious landing force was known as ''MacKechnie Force''.
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