Taleba Bay

Taleba Bay is a bay on the south western coast of Goodenough Island. The bay was the site of the landing of 120 troops of the Australian Army's 2/12th Infantry Battalion led by Major Keith Gatewood on 22 October 1942 as part of the Battle of Goodenough Island.[1]

Notes
  1. McCarthy 1959, pp. 347–349.

References
  • McCarthy, Dudley (1959). South–West Pacific Area – First Year: Kokoda to Wau. Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Series 1 – Army. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. OCLC 186193870. Retrieved 6 March 2012.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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