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New Guinea campaign

BelligerentsAustraliaPapuaNew GuineaUnited StatesUnited KingdomNetherlandsEmpire of JapanCommanders and leadersDouglas MacArthurGeorge KenneyRobert EichelbergerArthur CarpenderHitoshi ImamuraHatazō AdachiTomitarō HoriiIsoroku Yamamoto†Jisaburō OzawaJinichi KusakaStrength 350,000Casualties and losses42,000 total (c. 7,000 killed) 12,291 (4,684 killed)202,100 total dead 127,600 on New Guinea main island44,000 on Bougainville30,500 on New Britain, New Ireland, and the Admiralty IslandsThe New Guinea campaign of the Pacific War lasted from January 1942 until the end of the war in August 1945.

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