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Battle of Wewak

Papua New Guinea

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Wewak (1944), 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

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

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