Battle of Rabaul
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The name Battle of Rabaul may refer to several military actions which occurred in or near Rabaul, on New Britain in the Bismarck Islands during World War I and the Pacific campaign of World War II.
- The occupation of Rabaul in 1914 by the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary ForceAustralian Naval and Military Expeditionary ForceThe Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force was a small volunteer force of approximately 2,000 men, raised in Australia shortly after the outbreak of the First World War to seize and destroy German wireless stations in German New Guinea in the south-west Pacific...
. - Battle of Rabaul (1942)Battle of Rabaul (1942)The Battle of Rabaul, also known by the Japanese as Operation R, was fought on the island of New Britain in the Australian Territory of New Guinea, in January and February 1942. It was a strategically significant defeat of Allied forces by Japan in the Pacific campaign of World War II...
- Bombing of Rabaul (November 1943)
- The New Britain campaign (land battles) of 1943-45