Invasion Rabaul (47 page)

Carrier Platoon,
53

D Company,
52
,
85
,
97
,
102
,
105
,
108
,
120
,
121
,
132
,
147
,
152

Pioneer Platoon,
49
,
82

Protection Platoon,
82

R Company,
18
,
52
,
85
,
66
,
71
,
111
,
113
,
170

Y Company,
82
,
86
,
89
,
98
,
99

Z Company,
82

2/28th Infantry Battalion,
194

2/40th Infantry Battalion,
22
,
51
,
193
,
194

6th Division,
19

8th Division,
22
,
56

10th Training Depot,
22

17th Antitank Battery,
47
,
85
,
114
,
138
,
165
,
166
,
183
,
219

23rd Infantry Brigade,
12
,
22
,
23
,
56

Fortress Signals,
67
,
81
,
82
,
86

Gull Force,
22
,
193

Lark Force,
22
,
41
-43,
46
-49,
51
-58,
60
,
63
,
66
,
67
,
70
,
81
,
84
-86,
89
,
91
,
92
,
105
-107,
115
-117,
122
,
123
,
128
,
133
,
136
,
139
,
146
,
151
,
159
-164,
167
,
170
,
173
,
176
,
177
,
179
,
180
,
185
,
188
,
193
-197,
213
,
231
,
234
,
247
,
249
,
250
,
257
,
258
,
262
,
263

New Guinea Volunteer Rifles (NGVR),
45
,
66
,
85
,
95
,
107
,
130
,
149
,
168
,
169
,
192
,
234

Recovered Personnel Division,
259
,
260

Sparrow Force,
22
,
193

Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF),
52
,
57
,
63
,
69
,
75
,
86
,
88
,
91
,
92
,
94
,
128
,
136
,
137
,
140
,
143
,
178
,
192
,
195
,
207
,
210
,
219
,
220
,
222
,
249
,
258

6 Squadron,
69

20 Squadron,
79
,
91

24 Squadron,
58
,
63
,
77
,
79
,
83
,
86
,
92
,
161

Operations and Signals,
77

Royal Australian Artillery,
46
,
85

Royal Australian Engineers,
46
,
88
,
141
,
163

Royal Australian Navy,
45
,
70
,
106

British Units

5/11 Sikh Regiment,
213

British Expeditionary Force,
14

Japanese Units

Imperial Army,
56
,
65
,
66
,
73
,
123
,
145
,
148
,
201
,
212
,
223
,
236
,
249

1st Field Hospital,
199
,
220

18th Army,
213

31st Field Road Construction Unit,
213

47th Field Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion,
200

55th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Company,
65

55th Infantry Group,
65

55th Division Medical Corps,
199

55th Engineers,
65

55th Mountain Artillery Regiment,
65
,
99

55th Transportation Regiment, 2nd Company,
112

55th Veterinary Depot,
199

144th Infantry Regiment,
65
,
95

1st Battalion,
104
,
133
,
136
,
145

2nd Company,
99

2nd Battalion,
65
,
103
,
104
,
145

4th Company,
99

3rd Battalion,
65
,
95
,
122
,
133
,
145
,
210
,
212
,
215

7th Company,
95
,
100

8th Company,
95
,
98
,
99
,
146
,
157

9th Company,
95
,
100

South Seas Detachment,
64
,
65
,
73
,
74
,
94
,
105
,
107
,
122
,
123
,
133
,
136
,
145
,
148
,
164
,
199

South Seas Force,
224

Southern Army,
233

Imperial Navy,
19
,
53
,
55
,
65
,
66
,
67
,
71
,
103
,
107
,
123
,
133
,
205
,
214
,
216
,
223
,
232
,
236
,
244
,
247
,
249
,
260
,
267
,
269

1st Air Fleet,
71

1st Carrier Division,
71

4th Fleet,
64
,
65

4th
Kokutai
Naval Air Group,
208

5th Carrier Division,
71

8th Base Unit,
216

19th Squadron,
71

24th
Koku Sentai
Air Flotilla,
67

81st Naval Garrison Unit,
199
,
224
,
227

Chitóse
Kokutai
,
68

Maizuru
2
nd Special Naval Landing Force,
65
,
103
,
201

South Seas Force Transport Fleet,
71

Port Moresby Invasion Force,
225

Tulagi Invasion Force,
225

Yokohama
Kokutai
,
68

U.S. Units

U.S. Army Air Forces

14th Reconnaissance Squadron,
219

19th Bomb Group,
220

Twentieth Air Force,
253

22nd Bomb Group,
221

33rd Bomb Squadron,
222

40th Reconnaissance Squadron,
220

Far East Air Force (FEAF),
55

U.S. Navy,
208

U.S. Pacific Fleet,
225

Miyake, Toshio,
71
,
73

Mizusaki, Captain Shojiro,
224
,
227
,
244
-246

MO Operation,
224
,
225

Mollard, Major John C.,
108
,
111
,
113
,
127
,
128
,
130
,
131
,
142
-144,
159
,
160
,
170
,
171
,
180
,
249

Moore, Richard P.,
36

Morgan, Herbert W. “Bert,”
24
,
85
,
134
,
164
,
190
,
216
,
234

Mother volcano,
32
,
33
,
40
,
76

Mount Nakamisaki,
see
Tavurvur Mulvey, Noel,
235
,
246

Nagasaki bombing,
257

Nagumo, Vice Admiral Chuichi,
71
,
74
,
80

Namanula Hospital,
58

Nankai Dayori,
124
,
125

Naylor, Private Milton R.,
108

Neave, Lance Corporal William J.,
132

New Britain, history,
30
-37

Nicholls, Captain Harold W.,
164
,
189
,
195
,
196

Nimitz, Admiral Chester W.,
228
,
229

Nimitz, Lieutenant Chester W. Jr.,
228
,
239
,
240

Nishi-Ashibetsu Camp,
257
,
258

Noda, Lieutenant Tadaichi,
146
-148,
157

Norado, Major,
209

North Daughter volcano,
32
,
33
,
55
,
76
,
84

Northern Barrier,
45

Nottage, Captain, Stewart G.,
224
,
234
,
244
,
245

O’Hare, Lieutenant Edward “Butch,”
208

Ofuna,
249
,
250

Ogama, Ayara,
164
-166

Okazaki, Sergeant,
209

Olney, Private James N.,
100