Pak Island

Manus Province | Papua New Guinea

MapLat 2° 4' 0S Long 147° 37' 60E

History
On April 9, 1943 the 1st Squadron of the 12th Cavarly occupied Pak Island. Three prisoners, captured on 10 April, had escaped from Rambutyo by native canoe. On 12 April more Japanese were found on the east end of Pak and destroyed, eight of them in a large coral cave from which they fought until the cave was blown in on them by a demolition section from the 8th Engineers.

 

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