Qualla: Battle of Hollandia https://qualla.com/battle-of-hollandia en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/s/1/battle-of-hollandia-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Hollandia https://qualla.com/battle-of-hollandia Battle of Hollandia: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-hollandia/ Photo credit Public domain. General Hatazo Adachi was ordered to move west. He chose not to. In March 1944, Japan's Second Area Army instructed Adachi, commander of the 18th Army, to shift his forces from Madang and Hansa Bay to Hollandia, sending one division immediately. He ignored the order. He believed the next Allied landing would fall at Hansa Bay, and he was massing his troops there. When two American divisions landed at Hollandia on the morning of 22 April 1944, five hundred miles behind him, Adachi's entire army was trapped in the wrong place. Operation Reckless had earned its name.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/s/1/battle-of-hollandia-wp/rps1-battle-of-hollandia-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Hollandia: A Port Between Nothing and Nothing https://qualla.com/battle-of-hollandia/ Photo credit U.S. Navy, Public domain. Hollandia, now called Jayapura, was the only good anchorage on a vast stretch of New Guinea's north coast, the one sheltered port between Wewak far to the east and Geelvink Bay to the west. The Japanese had taken it in 1942 as part of their general push into the Dutch East Indies...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/s/1/battle-of-hollandia-wp/rps1-battle-of-hollandia-a-port-between-nothing-and-nothing.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Hollandia: Ultra, and Adachi's Mistake https://qualla.com/battle-of-hollandia/ Photo credit Netaholic13, CC BY 3.0. Allied code-breakers had been reading Imperial Japanese Army radio traffic. The decrypts revealed that Hollandia was lightly held while Adachi's divisions were concentrated hundreds of miles east in the Madang-Wewak region. MacArthur saw an opportunity to leapfrog. On 8 March he ...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/s/1/battle-of-hollandia-wp/rps1-battle-of-hollandia-ultra-and-adachis-mistake.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Hollandia: The Airfields Burn https://qualla.com/battle-of-hollandia/ Photo credit CraigVanS, CC BY-SA 4.0. The air campaign preceding the landings was devastating. Between 30 March and 3 April 1944, the U.S. Fifth Air Force and Royal Australian Air Force struck Hollandia and the Sentani airfields with complete surprise. They destroyed 340 Japanese aircraft on the ground and another 60...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/s/1/battle-of-hollandia-wp/rps1-battle-of-hollandia-the-airfields-burn.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Hollandia: Reckless Becomes Routine https://qualla.com/battle-of-hollandia/ Photo credit U.S. Army, Public domain. At dawn on 22 April, after preparatory naval bombardment, the U.S. 24th Infantry Division came ashore at Tanahmerah Bay while the 41st Infantry Division landed at Humboldt Bay near Hollandia itself. Simultaneously, Operation Persecution put 22,500 troops ashore at Aitape, 125 mil...

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