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Location Lat 1° 57' 30S Long 147° 17' 9E Hauwei Island is located in the Admiralty Island Group (Admiralty Islands). Borders Seeadler Harbor and beyond the north coast of Manus Island to the south. Prewar and during the Pacific War part of the Territory of New Guinea. Today located in Manus Province in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Wartime History On March 11, 1944 a platoon sized reconnaissance force from U.S. Army, 1st Cavalry Division made an amphibous landing in a landing craft supported by a PT Boat on Hauwei Island. Shortly after landing, the patrol was ambushed in the jungle and engaged in combat for two hours as they fought their way back to the beach but saw the supporting PT Boat had withdrawn. Loading aboard their landing craft, it ran aground on a submerged reef and sank. After three hours in the sea, the platoon was rescued by another PT Boat. On March 12, 1944 a Allied naval force conducted a bombardment of Hauwei Island supported by aircraft the the 7th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Squadron made an amphibious landiing. Ashore, the Japanese continued to defend from jungle defenses and fortifications. On March 13, 1944 a single tank was landed and helped to defeat the Japanese that had no anti-tank weapons. During the capture of the island, the U.S. Army suffered 8 KIA and 46 WIA. Defending, 43 Japanese were counted as dead. Afterwards, Hauwei Island was developed by the U.S. Army as a base area to support the Manus Island landings and for use as an artillery base. A Japanese naval gun was captured on Hauwei Island put into use by the U.S. Army to augment the preinvasion bombardment of nearby Pityilu Island. By May 5, 1944 entire U.S. Army, 7th Cavalry established a semi permanent camp at Hauwei Island. As the engineers had nearly filled a swamp about 100 yards wide on Hauwei Island, the rains came and the swamp spread to three times its original size. References U.S. Army Campagins of World War II - Bismarck Archipelago pages 22-23 Contribute
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