Operation Reckless

English: The Landing at Hollandia (Operation Reckless) was a battle of the Western New Guinea campaign of World War II. American and allied forces undertook an amphibious landing on 22 April 1944 at Hollandia on northern coast of Dutch New Guinea. The amphibious landing was undertaken simultaneously with the amphibious landings of Operation Persecution at Aitape to isolate the Japanese 18th Army at Wewak.

Maps

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  Hollandia-Aitape Operations
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  American and Japanese movements
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  The Landings at Humboldt- and Tanahmerah-Bay
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  Tanahmerah Bay (New Guinea) with landing zones Red Beach 1 & 2 (Operation Reckless, April 1944)

Action

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  T30 rocket launcher, carrying three 4.5in rockets, under the wing of an an A-20 of the 90th Attack Squadron, 3rd Attack Group, Hollandia, in mid-1944
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  Damaged japanese airplanes. The Fifth Air Force, in a series of low-level bombing attacks, found enemy aircraft parked wing tip to wing tip along the runways. Hollandia, early April 1944
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  Landings at Tanahmerah Bay. Landing craft heading toward RED Beach 2. Despite unfavorable weather, Task Force 58 managed to maintain planes on air alert over the Hollandia area.
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  American landing craft cross Humboldt Bay during the assault on Hollandia, 22 April 1944.
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  An American landing craft, loaded with troops, approaches the beach at Hollandia. In the background shell bursts from the preliminary bombardment can be seen, 22 April 1944.
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  Tanahmerah Bay, unloading LST's, RED Beach 2 - April 1944
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  Tanahmerah Bay (New Guinea), Inland-jungle: Men of the 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry, carrying supplies forward (Operation Reckless, April 1944)
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  Signal Corps cameramen wading through stream while following infantry troops in forward area during invasion at a beach in New Guinea. Red Beach 2, Tanahmerah., 04/22/1944
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  General Douglas MacArthur and General Horace H. Fuller, on the beach at Humboldt Bay, New Guinea, 22 April 1944
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  LVT'S crossing lake Sentani near Hollandia. Note Fifth Air Force B-25's overhead. (Operation Reckless, April 1944)
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  The remains of a destroyed Japanese "Oscar" fighter aircraft in its dispersal bay after the area had been attacked and strafed by P40 Kittyhawk aircraft of No. 78 (fighter) wing RAAF (May 1944)