Sio

MapLat 5° 55' 0S Long 147° 19' 60E  Located on the north coast of the Huon Peninsula.

History
After the Australian army took Finshafen and Sattleburg, they continued on to take Sio about fifty miles up the coast, so they pushed on, driving the remnants of the 20th Division before them. On January 15, 1944, they reached Sio bringing under Allied control a 60-mile-stretch of coast line extending from Finschhafen to Sio. With its capture, the campaign in the Huon Gulf was completed. Australians continued moving west along the coast.

B-25C "Geronimo" 41-12980
Pilot Reid crashed June 21, 1943

 

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