Battle of Arawe order of battle
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File:Arawe landing craft Dec 43.jpg
United States landing craft and soldiers approach the beach at Arawe
This is an order of battle listing the Allied and Japanese forces involved in the Battle of Arawe from 15 December 1943 to 24 February 1944.
Contents
Allies
Ground forces
- Director Task Force[1]
- 112th Cavalry Regimental Combat Team
- 112th Cavalry Regiment
- 148th Field Artillery Battalion (12 x 105mm M2A1 howitzers)
- 59th Engineer Company (Combat)
- 236th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion (Searchlight) less elements
- two batteries of the 470th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion (Automatic Weapons)
- A Company, 1st Amphibious Tractor Battalion USMC
- detachment, 26th Quartermaster War Dog Platoon.
- B Company, 1st Tank Battalion USMC (arrived 12 January)[2]
- Engineer, medical, ordnance and other support units[3]
- 2nd Battalion, 158th Infantry Regiment (force reserve)
- 112th Cavalry Regimental Combat Team
- Task Force 74.1 (covering force)
- Rear Admiral Victor Crutchley
- Cruisers
- HMAS Australia (flagship)
- HMAS Shropshire
- Destroyers
- Task Force 76
- Destroyers[6]
- Transport group[6]
- USS Humphreys[7]
- USS Sands[7]
- HMAS Westralia
- USS Carter Hall
- two patrol craft
- two submarine chasers
- Service group[6]
- Elements, Boat Battalion, 592nd Engineer Boat and Short Regiment, 2nd Engineer Special Brigade (17 x LCVP, 9 x LCM, 2 rocket-firing DUKWs, 1 x repair and salvage boat)[8][9]
- Beach Party Number 1[10]
Japan
Ground forces
- Merkus Garrison (withdrew after the Allied landing)
- Two provisional companies drawn from the 51st Division.[11]
- Komori Force
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- Detachments from other units were also assigned to the Arawe area[13]
- Southeast Area Fleet / 25th Air Flotilla (sub-unit of 11th Air Fleet)
- 201 Air Group (Lakunai Airfield, Rabaul)[15]
- 204 Air Group (Lakunai)[15]
- 253 Air Group (Tobera Airfield, Rabaul)[16]
- 2nd Air Flotilla (sub-unit of 1st Air Fleet)
Notes
- ↑ Rottman (2009), p. 24
- ↑ Shaw and Kane (1963), p. 392
- ↑ Miller (1959), p. 277
- ↑ Miller (1959), p. 288
- ↑ Miller (1959), p. 289
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Gill (1968), p. 338
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Morison (1958), p. 374
- ↑ Miller (1959), p. 283–284
- ↑ Shaw and Kane (1963), p. 336
- ↑ Barbey (1969), pp. 103–104
- ↑ Shaw and Kane (1963), pp. 339–340
- ↑ Shaw and Kane (1963), pp. 327–328 and 343
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Miller (1959), p. 280
- ↑ Shaw and Kane (1963), p. 391
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Hata (2011), p. 65
- ↑ Hata (2011), p. 66
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Hata (2011), pp. 66–68
- ↑ Hata (2011), p. 68
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