Qualla: Battle of Lone Tree Hill https://qualla.com/battle-of-lone-tree-hill en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:28 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Lone Tree Hill https://qualla.com/battle-of-lone-tree-hill Battle of Lone Tree Hill: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-lone-tree-hill/ One tree. That was all a U.S. cartographer saw on the crest of a coral ridge 6,000 feet west of the main jetty in Maffin Bay, and so one tree became the name of the place on every map that followed. The hill itself was tangled with tropical rainforest so dense that men crawling up its 175-foot slopes could not see ten yards ahead. Beneath that green skin, the Japanese 223rd and 224th Infantry Regiments had spent weeks carving fortified caves into the coral. In the summer of 1944, American soldiers would have to go in after them.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/f/9/battle-of-lone-tree-hill-wp/rpf9-battle-of-lone-tree-hill-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Lone Tree Hill: A Coastal Pocket With No Way Forward https://qualla.com/battle-of-lone-tree-hill/ After Hollandia fell in late April 1944, a 26-mile stretch of coast around Toem, Wakde, and Sarmi was the only strip of Dutch New Guinea shoreline the Japanese still held with any strength. Lieutenant General Hachiro Tagami concentrated his men at Lone Tree Hill because it comman...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/f/9/battle-of-lone-tree-hill-wp/rpf9-battle-of-lone-tree-hill-a-coastal-pocket-with-no-way-forward.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Lone Tree Hill: Ten Days in the Caves https://qualla.com/battle-of-lone-tree-hill/ On 14 June, General Walter Krueger sent the 6th Infantry Division in to relieve the exhausted 158th. What followed was not a battle of sweeping maneuver but of close, suffocating violence. The caves were the problem. Soldiers threw in grenades, satchel charges, flamethrowers, and...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/f/9/battle-of-lone-tree-hill-wp/rpf9-battle-of-lone-tree-hill-ten-days-in-the-caves.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Lone Tree Hill: The Jetty and the Jumping-Off Point https://qualla.com/battle-of-lone-tree-hill/ What made Lone Tree Hill worth the cost was what lay behind it. With the ridge in American hands, Maffin Bay could finally be developed as a major staging base. The jetty that the battle had been fought 6,000 feet away from became one of the busiest loading docks in the Southwest...

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