Military History Talk – Operation Tradewind

In May 1944 Allied troops captured Madang in Papua New Guinea allowing the United States to begin Operation Tradewind and the Battle of Morotai – part of the process to recapture the Philippines and to occupy the Japanese home islands. Tradewind also served as the staging point for the Australian landings on Borneo in early 1945.

LTCOL Graeme Davis (Retd) from the Lane Cove R.S.L. Sub-Branch, and principal of Family Military History will discuss Operation Tradewind and the Battle of Morotai in the light of the strategy of ‘island hopping’.

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Image caption: United States troops getting off an infantry landing craft on Morotai Island, New Guinea, 15 September 1944. Photographer Jack Band. (Courtesy of the Australian War Memorial 017591)