WW2 US "Goodenough Island New Guinea" 1942 105mm Shell art Ash Tray
Engraved into the shell is the words:
“Goodenough Island - Dutch New Guinea” “Camp Butner N.C.” ” Forest Tenn.” Stoneman Calif.”
The Battle of Goodenough Island (22–27 October 1942), also known as Operation Drake, was a battle of the Pacific Campaign of WWII The Allies landed on Goodenough Island, Papua, and clashed with a Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces. The Japanese troops had been stranded on the island during the Battle of Milne Bay in late August 1942. "Drake Force", consisting of the Australian 2/12th Btn and attachments, landed on the southern tip of Goodenough Island at Mud Bay and Taleba Bay on 22 October, tasked with denying the Japanese use of the island prior to the Buna campaigh. Following a short but intense fight, the Japanese forces withdrew to Fergusson Island on 27 October. After the battle, Goodenough Island was developed into a major Allied base for operations later in the war. Goodenough was used by the First Marine Division as its forward staging area for the December 26, 1943 landing at Cape Gloucester.
The Marines made use of their temporary headquarters between October and December 1943, building a base north of the settlement that is now Bolubolu—toward Vivigani. There’s not much left of the American presence in either village these days.
According to Captain Nikolai Stevenson, commander of C Company, 1st battalion, First Marines, it took 18 days in an old Liberty ship to sail from Melbourne, Australia to Goodenough (with a brief stop in Milne Bay).
Perhaps Goodenough’s better claim to fame was that it was the location of the only meeting of the war between two four-star generals, George Marshall and Douglas MacArthur. According to historian James Duffy, the purpose of the meeting between the two generals was not to agree strategy in the Pacific but to send a message to President Franklin Roosevelt that neither military man would brook his political meddling in their operations, and Roosevelt was a known meddler.
Engraved into the shell is the words:
“Goodenough Island - Dutch New Guinea” “Camp Butner N.C.” ” Forest Tenn.” Stoneman Calif.”
The Battle of Goodenough Island (22–27 October 1942), also known as Operation Drake, was a battle of the Pacific Campaign of WWII The Allies landed on Goodenough Island, Papua, and clashed with a Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces. The Japanese troops had been stranded on the island during the Battle of Milne Bay in late August 1942. "Drake Force", consisting of the Australian 2/12th Btn and attachments, landed on the southern tip of Goodenough Island at Mud Bay and Taleba Bay on 22 October, tasked with denying the Japanese use of the island prior to the Buna campaigh. Following a short but intense fight, the Japanese forces withdrew to Fergusson Island on 27 October. After the battle, Goodenough Island was developed into a major Allied base for operations later in the war. Goodenough was used by the First Marine Division as its forward staging area for the December 26, 1943 landing at Cape Gloucester.
The Marines made use of their temporary headquarters between October and December 1943, building a base north of the settlement that is now Bolubolu—toward Vivigani. There’s not much left of the American presence in either village these days.
According to Captain Nikolai Stevenson, commander of C Company, 1st battalion, First Marines, it took 18 days in an old Liberty ship to sail from Melbourne, Australia to Goodenough (with a brief stop in Milne Bay).
Perhaps Goodenough’s better claim to fame was that it was the location of the only meeting of the war between two four-star generals, George Marshall and Douglas MacArthur. According to historian James Duffy, the purpose of the meeting between the two generals was not to agree strategy in the Pacific but to send a message to President Franklin Roosevelt that neither military man would brook his political meddling in their operations, and Roosevelt was a known meddler.
Engraved into the shell is the words:
“Goodenough Island - Dutch New Guinea” “Camp Butner N.C.” ” Forest Tenn.” Stoneman Calif.”
The Battle of Goodenough Island (22–27 October 1942), also known as Operation Drake, was a battle of the Pacific Campaign of WWII The Allies landed on Goodenough Island, Papua, and clashed with a Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces. The Japanese troops had been stranded on the island during the Battle of Milne Bay in late August 1942. "Drake Force", consisting of the Australian 2/12th Btn and attachments, landed on the southern tip of Goodenough Island at Mud Bay and Taleba Bay on 22 October, tasked with denying the Japanese use of the island prior to the Buna campaigh. Following a short but intense fight, the Japanese forces withdrew to Fergusson Island on 27 October. After the battle, Goodenough Island was developed into a major Allied base for operations later in the war. Goodenough was used by the First Marine Division as its forward staging area for the December 26, 1943 landing at Cape Gloucester.
The Marines made use of their temporary headquarters between October and December 1943, building a base north of the settlement that is now Bolubolu—toward Vivigani. There’s not much left of the American presence in either village these days.
According to Captain Nikolai Stevenson, commander of C Company, 1st battalion, First Marines, it took 18 days in an old Liberty ship to sail from Melbourne, Australia to Goodenough (with a brief stop in Milne Bay).
Perhaps Goodenough’s better claim to fame was that it was the location of the only meeting of the war between two four-star generals, George Marshall and Douglas MacArthur. According to historian James Duffy, the purpose of the meeting between the two generals was not to agree strategy in the Pacific but to send a message to President Franklin Roosevelt that neither military man would brook his political meddling in their operations, and Roosevelt was a known meddler.
