THE BATTLE FOR LAE AND THE PACIFIC WAR
turned_in_notPhillip Bradley, The Sydney Papers Online Issue 47
The capture of Lae was the most complex operation for the Australian army in the Second World War. In many ways it was also a rehearsal for the D-Day invasion of France, with an amphibious landing combined with the first successful large-scale Allied airborne operation of the war. Phillip Bradley is an historian and author…