July 3 and 4 1944

Drop in Dutch New-Guinea

On 3 and 4 July 1944, 1,424 paratroopers from the 1st and 3/503rd PIR parachuted into the Kamiri sector on the island of Noemfoor in Dutch New Guinea with the mission of seizing the 3 airfields that the Japanese had built there.

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