Pacific Wrecks Forum

Ed, Much appreciate your reply! Was unaware of the 10st arriving on May 3rd. Gamble's book indicated that no troops arrived during the campaign...so that is NEW info, THANKS!
Will check out of other references...again, much appreciated.
Rich

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You can find the section maps at the University of Texas. Here is the url:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/new_ ... ml?p=print

This is one of the best books I have read on Coral Sea area. Personal accounts galore! Nitty gritty detail of Rabaul, Port Moresby, and the Australian situation during the time of the Coral Sea campaign. Never understould how disconnected and disorganized the American forces were at that early 1942 ...

Hello other members! I have been visiting this sight for years and have gotten some great co-operation for its owner. I am retired, amateur military historian with interests in ancient, American Civil War, and WWII battles and situations...since I was 8 years old. My father served with the 2nd & 4th...

WOW, never expected to have boots on the ground! Hope you are still there...well, only if it is a nice place to be! :-) Could you inquire about how the base was in May 1942? Terrain (jungle or scrub), Laloki River traverse-able only a bridges, length of the 2 airstrips...etc. I am part of group of w...

Fellas, trying to simulate the situation at Port Moresby at the time of the Coral Sea campaign. Want to know what length each of these single strip "dirt" airfields were and what facilities each had. I have read in Gamble's book that the Japanese had destroyed all permanent structures at 7-mile just...