HMA Ships QUIBERON, NAPIER and NEPAL, (destroyers), were involved in Operation Transom. This was the attack mounted by Allied aircraft and surface units on Japanese oil installations at Surabaya.
HMA Ships AUSTRALIA and HOBART, (cruisers), and ARUNTA and WARRAMUNGA, (destroyers), supported the landing of US troops on Wakde Island. Of the Japanese garrison of 760, 759 were killed, and one taken prisoner.