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[17], After this failure, the Japanese decided on a longer term, two-pronged assault for their next attempt on Port Moresby. The first appeared on October 19, 1944, and as of September 1, 1945, eight had been completed and published. US troops and vehicles along the invasion beach at Korako. In the Southwest Pacific Area, aside from the creation of the Far Eastern Air Force, there were few changes. Rabaul overlooks Simpson Harbor, a considerable natural anchorage, and was ideal for the construction of airfields. Due to USAAF doctrine and a lack of long-range escorts, long-range bomber raids on targets like Rabaul went in unescorted and suffered heavy losses, prompting severe criticism of Lieutenant General George Brett by war correspondents for misusing his forces. In February 1943, the first contingent of twenty graduates from the Navys Japanese Language School at Boulder, Colorado arrived at ICPOA and began interrogating prisoners of war and translating captured documents. [7] The volume would have been more but members of the 414th CIC unit learned that Chinese soldiers through ignorance destroyed many documents. [5], According to John Laffin, the campaign "was arguably the most arduous fought by any Allied troops during World War II". Twelve of these were scheduled to be produced, beginning in March 1943. Land-based aircraft of the Allied air forces softened up the Hollandia area, destroying more than 300 enemy aircraft during the weeks preceding the attack. The landings at Hollandia and Aitape were followed just four weeks later by landings at Wakde, Sarmi and Toem, to the west. However, using 27 tons, at 40 lbs. [7], MacArthur met with the commander of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, at Brisbane between 25 and 27 March to discuss the role of the Navy in the operation. [36], The Australians decisively turned back the Japanese assault in the ensuing 2931 January 1943 Battle of Wau. The beach was narrow, though, and only allowed two LCMs to land at a time, while the even bigger LSTs had to remain offshore where they were cross loaded on to LVTs. Except for some fairly heavy air raids, the Japanese reacted feebly to this penetration of their last defenses before the Philippines. The campaign resulted in a crushing defeat and heavy losses for the Empire of Japan. 76, Part 4, Prominent Factors in Japanese Military Psychology.. When Germany and Italy declared war on the United States days later, America found itself in a global war. On 24 April, the beach became more congested with the arrival of scheduled reinforcements and further equipment, as well as two transports and seven LSTs carrying troops, including the corps commander and his headquarters, which had been diverted from Tanahmerah Bay. Interrogation of a prisoner confirmed the fact that supplies were being unloaded at Lae from enemy submarines. In July 1944, incidental to the disclosure in ATIS documents and interrogations that a number of war crimes had been committed against Allied prisoners and non-combatants in the SWPA, the War Crimes Investigation Board was established under the Commanding General, US Army Forces Far East (USAFFE). Horikoshi, upon arrival at ATIS, at first denied all knowledge of any atrocities but on being confronted with his diary, admitted that such things had occurred. Edwards also spoke with Graves Registration units about the importance of acquiring from the bodies of enemy soldiers everything with Japanese writing. Opposing these forces were the Australian 2/5th, 2/6th and 2/7th Battalions along with Lieutenant Colonel Norman Fleay's Kanga Force. The umbrella term for the series of strategic actions taken by the Allies to reduce and capture the vast Japanese naval and air facilities at Rabaul was Operation Cartwheel. target: "#hbspt-form-1677759698000-1549361125", [16] See The National Archives Arthur Evarts Kimberly and the Allied Translator and Interpreter Sections Document Restoration Sub-Section, 1944-1945.. [56] Historian Edward J. Drea attributed the success of the operation largely to MacArthur's bold decision to exploit intelligence gained through code breaking, and judged it was "MacArthur's finest hour in World War II and ULTRA's single greatest contribution to the general's Pacific strategy". The Kokoda Trail [was] suitable for splay-toed Papuan aborigines but a torture to modern soldiers carrying heavy equipment", Samuel Eliot Morison, Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, p. 34, Buna was easily taken as the Allies had no military presence there (MacArthur wisely chose not to attempt an occupation by paratroopers since any such force would have been easily wiped out by the Japanese). portalId: 20973928, In early January 1943, Japanese documents taken from the body of a sniper killed near Soputa, New Guinea, revealed the entire standing operating procedure of the Japanese in that area. Simultaneous operations from these two locations, one amphibious and one overland, would converge on the target city. Hollandia was a port on the north coast of New Guinea, part of the Dutch East Indies, and was the only anchorage between Wewak to the east, and Geelvink Bay to the west. Allied planners believed that the two beaches were connected by a road, and that another road suitable for vehicle traffic ran inland towards Lake Sentani. The US Navy had similar language programs. This was usually done in the form of listings (usually termed bulletins) that provided a brief description of the records and various types of publications containing full or partial translations of specific documents and publications containing full or partial translations of documents relating to a general or specific topic. Among this cache were code books and a list of Japanese and German agents in the United States. [4], In early 1944, after the Huon Peninsula had been secured, the Allied South West Pacific Command determined that the area should be seized and developed into a staging post for their advance along the north coast of New Guinea into the Dutch East Indies and to the Philippines. [10] After the chief of staff of the Second Area Army travelled to Wewak to deliver Adachi orders in person, he directed that the 66th Infantry Regiment begin moving from Wewak to Hollandia on 18 April; it was expected that this unit would arrive there in mid-June. The campaign was long and arduous, but by the end of 1944 the Japanese threat was contained in New Guinea. To ensure that all involved in captured records activities had an appreciation for records and information, the Allied Translation and Interpreter Section (ATIS) (Southwest Pacific Area [SWPA]) published, at the specific direction of the War Department, Publication No. Japanese plans to occupy Port Moresby were negated by losses during the Battle of the Coral Sea and Battle of Milne Bay. The destroyer Yayoi, sent to recover these men, was itself bombed and sunk on 11 September. The landing was unopposed as the enemy garrison indicated its intention of surrendering by hoisting a white flag at the first sight of the invasion force. This was the so-called Z Operation document which gave the Japanese air and naval plan of defense against Allied attacks on their South Pacific possessions, giving their solutions for the defense against Allied attacks in three sectors of the South Pacific. [58], Japanese casualties amounted to 3,300 killed and 600 wounded in combat;[59] a further 1,146 were killed or died in the area up to 27 September 1944. Although the quantity of documents captured in South East Asia and China were not as voluminous as those found elsewhere, nevertheless there were major collections captured. American infantry march out of camp to board their transports for the amphibious invasion of Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, 16 April 1944. ATIS also published a how-to handbook on conservation treatment of captured records and produced a Document Restoration Kit for units in the field. This information resulted in the Americans speeding up their invasion convoy by a day. [9], The Japanese 8th Area Army (equivalent to an Anglo-American army), under General Hitoshi Imamura at Rabaul, was responsible for both the New Guinea and Solomon Islands campaigns. [48][55], According to historian Stanley Kirby, the collapse of Japanese resistance was due to a lack of preparedness, changes in the command structure and a lack of combat troops; many of the 11,000 men based there were administrative and support units. To assist researchers interested in World War II-era research regarding the Pacific and Far East, I prepared a 1,700-page finding aid entitled Japanese War Crimes and Related Records: A Guide to Records in the National Archives,which is searchable and available online. Aerial resupply brought some relief, and on 30 April a group of 12 LCTs, towed by several LSTs, arrived at Humboldt Bay. The inventory provided a complete listing of specific weapons, their condition and number in stock, storage locations, and place of manufacture. 25 with Anti-Japanese activities in Java; and No. All of these factors had to be taken into account in determining the lines of advance in 1944. In addition, ATIS officers collaborated in the accumulation of evidence from prisoners and testified before the Board. More than 6,000 graduates served throughout the Pacific Theater during the war and the subsequent occupation of Japan. Subsequently, Supplements No. On November 4th, a Japanese 16th Division Operations Order, dated October 31st, was captured. (1944), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Guinea_campaign&oldid=1136220909, 44,000 on Bougainville (politically a part of New Guinea), 30,500 on New Britain, New Ireland, and the Admiralty Islands. Before the operation against the Japanese at Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, 41st CIC Detachment Special Agent in Charge Duval Edwards at Finschhaven during March and April 1944 gave many lectures on the great importance of soldiers turning in any captured documents. [39] This operation had no effect on the Japanese, as the air units were being held in reserve for a planned major attack on American naval forces in the Central Pacific. To alleviate this difficulty, in July 1944, an officer was assigned for duty with ATIS for the purpose of organizing a sub-section to clean and restore documents making them more readily legible. Joining JICPOA once it became an inter-service organization were some 50 US Army Military Intelligence Service (MIS) Nisei linguists. 5 captured many military documents. 5, Bibliographic Subject Index for Enemy Publications 1-200 (November 30, 1944), with a supplementary index from 201-300 (March 1945); No. This diary along with other documents relating to atrocities was used in the trials of Japanese war criminals. Advancing on Australia The Japanese effort at the start of World War Two was focused on conquest. Hollandia was a port on the north coast of New Guinea, part of the Dutch East Indies, and was the only anchorage between Wewak to the east, and Geelvink Bay to the west. Red 1 was found to be better, allowing LVTs and LCMs to come ashore with their infantry charges, but the approaches had to be cleared by engineers to allow the passage of the larger LCMs and even after this had been completed. None of the senior officers present had been in post more than a few weeks and the senior air officer had been relieved following the destruction of his air forces at the beginning of April. The defeat of the Japanese invasion of Milne Bay by 5 September 1942 was the first Allied land victory over the Japanese. 4, to acquire Japanese records, staged a contest, making awards to Burmese or Chinese turning in the most documents. During July and August 1944 the Japanese 18th Army, based on Wewak, mounted an attack on Aitape, employing more than 20,000 troops in the forward area. Japans strategy in the Pacific and Southeast Asia, The Allied offensive in the Pacific, 1944, Casualties and the material cost of the Pacific War. Historian Samuel Eliot Morison summed up the results this way: the enemy had shot his bolt; he never showed up again in these waters. The Japanese at Rabaul and other bases on New Britain would have easily overwhelmed any such effort (by mid-September, MacArthur's entire naval force under Vice Admiral Arthur S. Carpender consisted of 5 cruisers, 8 destroyers, 20 submarines, and 7 small craft). Base G played an important role as a staging area for subsequent operations in New Guinea and the Philippines. The Allied reduction of Rabaul was only made possible by relentless air strikes that took place day after day, but Yamamoto thought the damage inflicted by a few attacks of large formations would derail Allied plans long enough for Japan to prepare a defense in depth. This contest produced a number of valuable documents and propaganda leaflets. Japanese forces began to land on the island of Luzon in the Philippines on December 10. . Allied troops set up 105mm howitzer in Depapre New Guinea 1944. [5], Allied intelligence successes led to the decision to land at Hollandia. Army units in the South Pacific were transferred to MacArthurs direct control in June, and the U.S. 13th Air Force was moved to the Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA) to form, with the U.S. 5th Air Force, the new Far Eastern Air Force, which was commanded by Gen. George C. Kenney in addition to his position as commander of Allied Air Forces SWPA. Achieving complete surprise, they were able to destroy 340 aircraft on the ground and 60 more aircraft in the air, leaving the 6th Air Division unable to resist the planned invasion. 76) and Japanese efforts to fight Plague and Cholera (No. It included excerpts from Japanese captured documents on their research and use of bacterial warfare. Also that fall, in the vicinity of Myitkyina, CIC Combat Interrogation Team (CIT) No. It was captured and was found to be carrying a Japanese message. They included plans, charts, air defense details on all Japanese-held Pacific islands, and battle orders. The admirals preferred to bypass the Philippines and take Formosa, which was much closer to Japan. [22] The cost to the Allied fighters was high. Limited Distribution Reports were special reports, highly classified, consisting of translations of documents possessing information of the highest intelligence value or of immediate importance, issued from time to time as directed. 72 (formerly ATIS Information Bulletin No. [8] ICPOAs first officer in charge was Cmdr. A complete list of the names of all officers and noncommissioned officers of the Japanese 222nd Infantry Regiment was captured on May 28, 1944. Red 2 beach was found to be highly unsuitable and the promised roads were non-existent. On October 22, 1944, X Corps captured four sketches, one of gun positions north of Dulag, Leyte, and three of San Roque, Catmon Hill Area, Leyte, containing gun and coastal defense positions. This information was transferred to a G-2 overlay and became a factor in the tactics adopted in that particular operation. It was later thought that 3000 troops from the 6th Sea Detachment were in the area, and reinforcements were being rapidly transferred there. Instructions were issued to the assaulting forces personnel not to pocket captured documents as souvenirs but to turn them over to JICPOA personnel.[10]. [35], Once the Japanese had decided to give up on Guadalcanal, the capture of Port Moresby loomed even larger in their strategic thinking. 87 (Japanese Mines and Minesweeping); and, Nos. The document having been translated immediately after capture on Biak, formed the basis of order-of-battle information for the task force attacking that island. Report No. Pre-War New Guinea The Japanese Invasion The Turning Point The Long Allied Advance 1943 1944 The New Guinea campaign (January 1942-September 1945) was one of the longest campaigns of the Second World War. Late in the summer, Lieut. The attack failed, and the Japanese were driven back toward Wewak. This airfield was of great value to the Australians during the fighting for northeast Papua. The U.S. 24th Division's 19th and 21st Regimental Combat Teams (RCTs) were to land at Tanahmerah Bay. [11] This document was quickly translated and published as ATIS Publication No. This attack, which was designated Operation Cockpit, aimed to prevent the Japanese from transferring air units stationed near Singapore to New Guinea. Documents recovered from the bodies of dead Japanese, members of a Special Suicide Penetration Unit, killed near San Fabian, Luzon, on January 19, 1945, gave full accounts of the units and personnel involved. In the final days of March, the Fast Carrier Force (Task Force 58) attacked Japanese airbases on Palau and islands in the Carolines. The headland was formed by the Cyclops Mountains, a mountain ridge rising steeply to 7,000 feet (2,100m) and was backed by Lake Sentani, extending 15 miles (24km) east to west. 1, List of Japanese Military Conventional Signs and Abbreviations (March 4, 1943); No. 10, Restoration of Captured Documents (June 28, 1945). [15] Under a memorandum of August 27, 1945, CIC was ordered to cease its investigation of wartime collaborators in the Philippines on September 2nd and turn over all records, together with over 5,000 interned Filipinos charged with treason, collaboration and subversive activities, to the Department of Justice of the Philippine Commonwealth Government. Classes began November 1, 1941, with four instructors and 60 students in an abandoned airplane hangar at Crissy Field. During the initial phase in early 1942, the Empire of Japan invaded the Australian-administered Mandated Territory of New Guinea (23 January) and the Australian Territory of Papua (21 July) and overran western New Guinea (beginning 29/30 March), which was a part of the Netherlands East Indies. the strategic base on New Britain (now part of Papua New Guinea), on January 23, 1942. [59], Operation Reckless was an unqualified success, as were the landings around Aitape under the guise of Operation Persecution. The Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies began on 10 January 1942, and the Imperial Japanese Army overran the entire colony in less than three months. He told soldiers that ATIS personnel had told him that they had seen Japanese documents held as souvenirs of earlier battles in New Guinea, which contained information of tactical value which if had been turned in at the time, would have saved lives and shortened battles. 72 was published as an accumulation of documentary evidence for the Commission Regarding Breaches of the Rules of Warfare by the Japanese Forces of the Australian Commonwealth. The Aussies were fighting mad, for they had found some of their captured fellows tied to trees and bayoneted to death, surmounted by the placard, 'It took them a long time to die'. Seven LSTs were also assigned. In the first months of 1942, the Japanese launched further attacks against British Burma, Australian-administered New Guinea and Papua, and the islands of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Once the war ended, Southeast Asia Command Field Security Sections were assigned to seize records that, among other things, could be used for the prosecution of war criminals. [54] There was little resistance initially, but further inland there was some opposition as elements of the 186th Infantry reached the lake by 24 April. Todays post is by Dr. Greg Bradsher, Senior Archivist at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. From there the documents were immediately sent to Brisbane for translation by ATIS personnel. Engineers operating amphtracks pushed forward from Jautefa Bay to the lake to carry the infantry around the Japanese positions at the lake, completing their flanking maneuver on 25 April. 2 in May 1943. A fire caused by Allied bombing continued to burn in the Japanese supply dump for several days and later attracted the attention of a Japanese bomber, which attacked the beach area late on 23 April, resulting in more fires and killing 24 and wounding 100 more. [61] U.S. forces undertook mopping up operations in the area until 6 June. The Joint Intelligence Center, Pacific Ocean Areas (JICPOA), had its origins in the Intelligence Center, Pacific Ocean Areas (ICPOA) which had been established on July 14, 1942 in Hawaii as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz intelligence center. 92). Before the end of May 1944 the 41st Infantry Division moved westward from Hollandia and made a landing on the little island of Biak. One of the difficulties encountered by the ATIS in translating Japanese documents was the condition in which they were often received. ATIS received and translated in April 1944 the diary of prisoner of war Hiroshi Horikoshi, a civilian employee (interpreter) with the Japanese 14th Army, who was captured at the same time. Rabaul became the forward base for the Japanese campaigns in mainland New Guinea, including the pivotal Kokoda Track campaign of July 1942 - January 1943, and the Battle of Buna-Gona. [56] On the other hand, the Allied operation had been over-insured; concerns over the strength of the Japanese garrison had left the Allies with a four to one advantage in the event. In March General Hatazo Adachi, the commander of the Japanese 18th Army, was ordered by the Second Area Army to withdraw his forces west from the Madang-Hansa Bay area to Hollandia, with one division to be dispatched there immediately. When the Allied forces began to advance, more documents were captured and a much higher proportion was official. Through this, a complete picture of the organization, strength and disposition of this force was gleaned. They were special works, compiled for general reference purposes. ATIS Inventories were also prepared. Report No. [7] The attack was designated Operation Reckless in recognition of the risks involved in carrying it out. Actual Allied losses amounted to one destroyer, one oiler, one corvette, two cargo ships and approximately 25 aircraft. Japanese plans to occupy Port Moresby were negated by losses during the Battle of the Coral Sea and Battle of Milne Bay. No. Ultimately, a major air and staging base was developed in the Hollandia area and most of the higher headquarters in the Southwest Pacific area established their command posts there during the summer of 1944. They included: No. [12] Initially, the intelligence product of JICPOA received no CINCPAC-CINCPOA authentication. Then began the grueling Kokoda Track campaign, a brutal experience for both the Japanese and Australian troops involved. Also that summer, the 441st CIC unit established a clinical laboratory, which, among other things, restored charred documents. Accordingly, the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, directed on September 22, 1944, that Advanced Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ADVATIS) be established in the immediate vicinity of General Headquarters at Hollandia. Earlier, during the Leyte campaign, important documents and diaries were captured by CIC detachments indicating the collaboration of a prominent police officer. hbspt.enqueueForm({ [42], " 'The Boeing [B-25] is most terrifying,' wrote one survivor in his diary. This plan was eventually reversed in favor of a counterattack on U.S. forces around Aitape. They were discontinued with the dissolution of the Philippine Island Research Section of ATIS on October 9, 1944. The Navy played a crucial role in operations to take Japanese airfields. By the end of the war, ATIS had processed over 350,000 documents (or 1,680 cubic feet of records).[17]. The story begins on March 31, 1944, when two Japanese Kawanishi flying boats were enroute to Mindanao in the Philippines. [13] See Seventy Years Ago: Colonel Sidney F. Mashbir and the Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS), September-October 1942.. The B-29s in the Pacific, forming a part of the U.S. 20th Air Force, were controlled by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, acting through Gen. Henry (Hap) Arnold, commanding general of the U.S. Army Air Forces. While MacArthur sought eight days worth of support from the fleet's powerful fleet carriers, Nimitz would only agree to commit this force for two days after the landings. The convoy split around 80 miles (130km) offshore, with the Eastern Attack Group, consisting of troops assigned to Operation Persecution turning away for Aitape. With the occupation of Morotai, the long drive up the New Guinea coast was strategically completed. The quantity and type of documents captured from the Japanese varied widely. (Map 2) Invasion of Dutch New Guinea. The War Department Intelligence Service established a secret school at the Presidio of San Francisco to teach individuals to be Japanese-language interpreters and translators. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, who later became the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In New Guinea, U.S. and Australian infantry were moving along the northern coast, pushing the Japanese before them. One company landed on White 2 and secured Cape Tjeweri, after which a group of 18 LVTs crossed the sandspit to land two more companies near Pim inside Jautefa Bay. [8] At the start of 1943, ICPOA was basically dealing with intercepted messages because not that many prisoners of war or documents had been captured. New Guinean porters carry a load through the jungle. The plane in which Fukudome was flying also crashed into the sea, near the island of Cebu. Nimitz offered to assign eight small escort carriers to support the landing at Aitape, with these vessels then proceeding to support operations at Hollandia until 11 May. The naval command in the Southwest Pacific remained unchanged. On 10 January 1942, during the Dutch East Indies Campaign, Japanese forces invaded the Dutch East Indies as part of the Pacific War. [46], On landing, the U.S. troops came under sporadic small arms and machine gun fire, but this was quickly suppressed. The first major collection of captured Japanese documents in the Pacific Theater was made in August 1942 when the 1st Marine Raider Battalion, under Col. Evans Carlson and Lt. Col. James Roosevelt, made a harassing raid on Makin Island in the Gilberts. [27] As the Japanese ground forces pressed toward Port Moresby, the Allied Air Forces struck supply points along the Kokoda Track. The landings were undertaken simultaneously with the amphibious invasion of Aitape ("Operation Persecution") to the east. The timing of the landings at Hollandia were moved back to 22 April at around this time due to logistical problems and the Pacific Fleet's other commitments, and it was decided to conduct the landing at Aitape simultaneously with the main assault. Philippine Series Bulletins represented special reports of items pertaining to the Philippine Islands. 37, No. [41] Through the afternoon of 1 March, the overcast weather held at which point everything began to go wrong for the Japanese. Barbey's VII 'Phib carried out two almost simultaneous undertakings. Captured and sunken Japanese ships and boats also provided large quantities of documents, many of immediate value. graduate Hollandia. During the period of October 1942-July 1943, the work of indexing, abstracting and collating information from captured documents and prisoners of war, answering internal queries, and providing information to assist translators and examiners, was carried on by a staff consisting of six officers and ten enlisted personnel. [38], In response to a request from the head of the US Navy, Admiral Ernest King, the Eastern Fleet conducted a raid on Japanese positions on the island of Sabang in the Indian Ocean ahead of the landings at Hollandia and Aitape. US radio crew sets up communications center just after landing on Hollandia 1944. Urgent information was extracted before rushing the documents on to the Advanced Echelon where they were sorted, stamped, examined, and translated as necessary. The Pacific Strategy, 1941-1944. Gen. Frank D. Merrill, captured 2 tons of documents at Myitkyina, Burma. For his action during the Biak operation, Jack Y. 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