Lat 5° 16' 60S Long 150° 1' 60E  Located 40 miles from Hoskins.

History
Defended by the Japanese 1st Battalion, 54th Infantry commanded by Captain Kiyomatsu Terunuma prepaired the defenses at Talasea, after the Marines landed at Cape Gloucester. Japanese straggled thru the area on their way back towards Rabaul. Liberated by Americans in who landed at Volupai on March 6, 1944, The US Marines lost more men to treefalls than to battle. Talasea was an administrative base for the Americans for a short period, and after WWII.

Talasea Village
Small village to the north of Talasea strip, located along Garua Bay. After the battle, 1st Marines established a headquarters at this location, with training sites, hospital (using captured Japanese stocks) and rest area and swimming in Garua Bay.

PT-Boat Base
The Navy also built a base for PT Boats. Two days after operations, the base was bombed by friendly planes on March 27th, and killed 5, wounded 18.

Talasea Airfield (Old Talasea Strip)
Prewar airfied occupied by Americans in early March 1944 used to a limited capacity.

Bristol Beaufighter Mk. XIc Serial Number A19-141
Pilot Wein crashed December 17, 1943 discovered 2005

 

Volupai (Red Beach)
Located towards the northern tip of the Talasea peninsula.  An Allied reconnasance team landed prior to the Americna landing and confirmed light enemy defenses and aboat 600 troops in the Talasea area. This became the site of the intial American landing by LSTs and LCM. On March 6, 1944 at 08:35 an assault force landed. Japanese hit the beach area with 90mm mortars. Four Sherman tanks landed, two were lost, one disabled on the beach in soft sand, and the other damaged by a Japanese magntic mine that a soldier attempted to attack, jamming the turret and stunning a crew, then this same tank was disabled by a land mine when it pulled off the trail to allow others forward. After the landing, the Marines occupied the Volupai Plantation area. . As they pushed inland, there were casualties from friendly fire incident and booby traps. By March 6th they had kiled an estimated 150 Japanese and lost 17 KIA and 114 WIA.

Mount Schleuther
Located between Volupai and Talasea. It was attacked March 9 by Company G while Company C and cleared villages around the base. Japanese rigged booby traps on a gun on the mountain, wounding one Marine.

Bitokara
Village to the north-west of Talasea, to the east of Mount Schleuther.  On March 11, Col Sith and his EO Col Henery W. Buse with a color guard of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines raised the American flag at Bitokara, the same flag that had flown at Cape Glouchester at the end of December, 1943.

Garua Island
Located to the east of Talasea Peninsula and Talasea in the Garua Bay. Pre-war the island was the Garua Plantation. American forces occupied the island on March 9.

Eleanora Bay
On March 11, 1944, the 1st Battalion of the Regiment made an unopposed landing at Linga Linga Plantation on Eleanora Bay and after a number of successful skirmishes with enemy stragglers, returned to Cape Gloucester on the 18th.