Regional1942

Battle of Milne Bay

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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Papua New Guinea

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Milne Bay (1942), part of the World War II. Australia defeated Japan.

Belligerents2

Australia
Japan

ON THE MAPEmpire of Japan (peak, 1942)

Conflict graph

PART OFWorld War II

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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Cite as: Battle of Milne Bay (1942). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-milne-bay · Sources & methodology