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Battle of Sansapor

Battle of Sansapor
Part of World War II, Pacific War

Columns of troop-packed landing craft en route for the invasion of Sansapor.
Date30 July – 31 August 1944
Location
Dutch New Guinea
Result Allied victory
Belligerents
 United States  Japan
Commanders and leaders
United States Franklin C. Sibert
United States William Fechteler
United States Russell S. Berkey		 Empire of Japan Unknown
Strength

United States Typhoon Task Force

United States Task Force 77

United States Task Force 78		 Empire of Japan 35th Division
Casualties and losses
14 killed
35 wounded[1]		 385 killed
215 captured[1]

The Battle of Sansapor (Operation Globetrotter) was an amphibious landing and subsequent operations around Sansapor, Dutch New Guinea on the Vogelkop Peninsula during World War II.[2]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Smith was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Morison, Samuel Eliot (2001). History of United States Naval Operations in World War II: New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944 – August 1944. University of Illinois Press. pp. 140–4. ISBN 0-252-07038-0.

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