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The Japanese occupation of Nauru was the period of three years (26 August 1942 – 13 September 1945) during which Nauru, a Pacific island which at that time was under Australian administration, was occupied by the Japanese military as part of its operations in the Pacific War during World War II.
Operation RY was the Imperial Japanese plan to invade and occupy Nauru and Ocean islands in the south Pacific during the Pacific conflict of World War II.The operation was originally set to be executed in May 1942 immediately following Operation MO and before Operation MI, which resulted in the Battle of Midway.
The Japanese troops built two airfields on Nauru, which were bombed for the first time on 25 March 1943, preventing food supplies from being flown to Nauru. [20] In 1943 the Japanese deported 1,200 Nauruans to work as labourers in the Chuuk islands. [17] Nauru was liberated from the Japanese on 13 September 1945, when Captain Soeda, the ...
U.S. Army Air Forces bombing the Japanese airstrip on Nauru, 1943. [48] Japanese troops occupied Nauru on 25 August 1942. [46] The Japanese built 2 airfields which were bombed for the first time on 25 March 1943, preventing food supplies from being flown to Nauru. [49] The Japanese deported 1,200 Nauruans to work as labourers in the Chuuk ...
Japanese occupation ends on Ocean Island on 21 August 1945. Because of the distance between Kwajalein and Tarawa (580 nm), on 15 February 1943, the Gilbert Islands, Ocean Island and Nauru were removed from the 6th Base Force in Kwajalein and replaced under a new 3rd Special Base Force with headquarters in Betio, with Admiral Tomonari replacing ...
When Japanese occupation forces invaded the islands in August 1942, Chalmers and the other Australians were interned in a house near the island's native hospital. On 25 March 1943, after an American bombing raid on Nauru's Japanese-built airfield, the garrison's second-in-command, Lieutenant Hiromi Nakayama , ordered the execution of all five ...
Japanese occupation of Nauru; Japanese occupation of the Gilbert Islands; N. German attacks on Nauru; Nauruan Civil War; R. Operation RY This page was last edited on ...
Allied map of Nauru, World War II. This article lists the colonial governors of Nauru, from the establishment of the German colonial presence in 1888 (as part of German New Guinea), through the Japanese occupation during World War II, until the independence of the Australian-administered Trust Territory of Nauru in 1968.