Hollandia

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Mike

Hollandia became a huge base to consolidate the move of American forces up the New Guinea coast. It marked the end of the major American involvement leaving the Australians to continue to fight the Japanese on the north coast and Bougainville.

As you can see from these photos, not only did they use the old Dutch buildings but built a huge complex on top.

Just as they were getting established it was decided to move the whole shooting match to Morotai to form the launch platform for the American assault on the Philippines and the Australian assault on Borneo. That move cost millions of dollars in transport and wasted resources.