HMAS SWAN, (sloop), recorded in her journal the results of a bombardment in the Wewak area of New Guinea:- ’89 Japanese dead were found after the landing in the area, three trench systems behind the beach effectively shelled, and the enemy withdrew’.
Australian Naval History on 11 May 1945
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