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April 1943,Rabaul.A large mission was planned by the Japanese for 12th April 1943 as part of 'Operation I-Go'.
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto had increasing fears about the recent growth in Allied air power in New Guinea. He therefore decided to provisionally commit the full weight of Imperial Navy carrier-based aircraft to deal determinedly with this threat. Accordingly these units were ordered to land at bases at Rabaul, Buin and Kavieng. From these they would fly alongside their land-based counterparts in a series of major strikes against enemy air forces and shipping throughout the region. This operation was commanded by Yamamoto himself.
In the picture a large number of Japanese planes were assembling and training in Rabaul. A Mitsubishi type-32 "Hamp" zero plane was landing on the runway. |
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Rabaul is a township in East New Britain province, Papua New Guinea. During World War II it was captured by the Japanese in 1942, and it became the main base of Japanese military and naval activity in the South Pacific. Settlements and military installations around the edge of the caldera are often collectively referred to as Rabaul despite the old town of Rabaul itself being reduced to practical insignificance by the volcanic eruption in 1994.
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