List of wars involving Papua New Guinea

This is a list of wars involving Papua New Guinea, German New Guinea or Territory of New Guinea.

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results Casualties
Battle of Bita Paka (11 September 1914)
Raising the Australian flag in Angoram, 16 December 1914.
  Germany Australia Defeat
30 Melanese police killed, 10 wounded
Australian occupation of German New Guinea (September– October 1914)
Australian Fleet entering Simpson Harbour in 1914.
Australia
 Japan 		Defeat
85 killed and 15 wounded
New Guinea Campaign (1942–1945)
Australian forces attack Japanese positions near Buna.
 Australia

United States
United Kingdom
Netherlands

Empire of Japan Victory
42,000 total[1]
Coconut War (August–September 1980) Vanuatu
Papua New Guinea
Solomon Islands 		Nagriamel rebels
Support:
France
Phoenix Foundation 		Victory
?
Bougainville Civil War (1988–1998)
Ambulances in Arawa, 1998 destroyed in conflict.
 Papua New Guinea
  • Buka Liberation Front
  • Bougainville Resistance Force

Supported by:
Australia
Indonesia[2]

Bougainville Interim Government (BIG)

Supported by:
Solomon Islands
Fiji (alleged)

Military stalemate[3]

300+ PNGDF soldiers killed
Several thousand wounded

References

  1. ^ New Guinea: The US Army Campaigns of World War II. 8,500 prior to January 1943, 24,000 between January 1943 and April 1944, and 9,500 from April 1944 to the end of the war. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  2. ^ Bohane, Ben (8 October 2019). "The Bougainville Referendum And Beyond". Lowy Institute.
  3. ^ Bahcheli, Tozun, Barry Bartmann, and Henry Srebrnik, eds. De facto states: the quest for sovereignty, p. 242. Routledge, 2004.
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