D-Day New Guinea : the extraordinary story of the battle for Lae and the greatest combined airborne and amphibious operation of the Pacific War /

The capture of Lae was the most complex operation for the Australian army in the Second World War. In many ways it was also a rehearsal for the D-Day invasion of France with an amphibious landing combined with the first successful large scale Allied airborne operation of the war. But this is not jus...

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