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Capture of Port Moresby

Name: Capture of Port Moresby – Japan factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

Japan · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1942Date range

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Chronological records

1942

Shigeyoshi Inouye1 May 1942

Port Moresby · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Ordered to capture Port Moresby in the Solomons

Names involved

Shigeyoshi Inouye

Provenance

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