Admiralty Islands campaign order of battle
This is the order of battle of Allied and Japanese forces during the Admiralty Islands campaign of 1944.
Allied forces
[edit]The Allied Task Force BREWER for the occupation of the Admiralty Islands consisted of:[1]
Ground Forces
[edit]All US Army unless otherwise noted
- 1st Cavalry Division (less 603rd Tank Company)
- 1st Cavalry Brigade
- 2nd Cavalry Brigade
- 1st Cavalry Division Artillery
- 61st Field Artillery Battalion
- 82nd Field Artillery Battalion
- 99th Field Artillery Battalion
- 8th Engineer Squadron
- 1st Medical Squadron
- 16th Quartermaster Squadron
- 1st Antitank Troop
- 1st Signal Troop
- 27th Ordnance Medium Maintenance Company
- Alamo Scouts[2]
- 2nd Battalion, 50th Coast Artillery Regiment
- 168th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion (Gun)
- HQ and HQ Battery, 15th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Group
- Battery C, 237th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion (Searchlight)
- 211th Coast Artillery Battalion (Anti-Aircraft) (Automatic Weapons)
- Shore Battalion and Company A, Boat Battalion, 592nd Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment
- 1 Platoon, 453rd Engineer Depot Company
- Detachment, 267th Ordnance Medium Maintenance Company (Anti-Aircraft)
- 287th Ordnance Medium Maintenance Company
- 27th Portable Surgical Hospital
- 30th Portable Surgical Hospital
- 603rd Medical Clearing Company
- 58th Evacuation Hospital
- 28th Malaria Survey Unit
- 52nd Malaria Control Unit
- 3526th Quartermaster Truck Company (less 2 platoons)
- 695th Quartermaster Truck Company
- 2nd Platoon, 1998th Quartermaster Truck Company
- 1 Platoon, 3818th Gas Supply Company
- Detachment, 493rd Quartermaster Depot Supply Company
- Company C, 267th Quartermaster Service Battalion (less 1 platoon)
- HQ and 2nd Platoon, 123rd Quartermaster Bakery Company
- Provisional Bakery Platoon (2nd Platoon, 352nd Quartermaster Bakery Company)
- 1 Section, 286th Quartermaster Refrigeration Company
- 294th Port Company
- 167th Port Company (less 1 Platoon and 1 Section)
- 466th Amphibious Truck Company (less 1 platoon)
- Detachment, 94th Chemical Composite Company
- Section, 1st Platoon, 604th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company
- Detachment, Company A, 60th Signal Battalion
- 611th Ordnance Ammunition Company
- 17th and 19th Radio Station Sections, 832nd Signal Service Company
- ANGAU Detachment
Naval Forces
[edit]All USN unless otherwise noted
- Naval Shore Detachment, 7th Fleet
- No. 9 Naval Advance Unit (less Advance Detachment)
- 17th Naval Construction Regiment
- No. 40 Communications Unit
- Hydrographic Survey Unit
- Advance Echelon LION 4
- 6 Construction Battalions
- 3 ACORNs (less CBs)
- 1 Construction Battalion (Special)
- No. 15 PT Overhaul and Operating Base
Air Forces
[edit]All RAAF unless otherwise noted
- No. 73 Wing
- No. 76 Squadron (P-40 Kittyhawk)
- No. 77 Squadron (P-40 Kittyhawk)
- No. 79 Squadron (Supermarine Spitfire)
- No. 114 Mobile Fighter Sector HQ
- No. 152, 340, 345, 346 and 347 Radar Stations
- No. 73 Wing Signals Station
- No. 49 Operational Base Unit
- No. 12 Repair and Salvage Unit
- No 3 section, 1 Malaria Control Unit
- No. 77 Medical Clearing Station
- 12th Air Liaison Party (USAAF)
- Detachment 7, Transportation and Movements Office
- Detachment 4, Replenishing Centre
- Detachment, 16 Store Unit
- Detachment, 7 Coastal Unit
- Canteen Unit
Japanese forces
[edit]The Japanese garrison of the Admiralty Islands was expanded in the months prior to the Allied landings. On 2 February 1944 it consisted of:[3]
- 1st Battalion, 229th Infantry Regiment
- 2nd Battalion, 1st Independent Mixed Regiment
- 51st Transport Regiment
- Elements, 14th Naval Base Force
Notes
[edit]- ^ Krueger, Walter, Report on BREWER Operation, 2 August 1944, AWM54 519/1/12
- ^ Rottman, Gordon (2005). US Special Warfare Units in the Pacific Theater 1941–1945. Battle Orders 12. Duncan Anderson (consultant editor). Botley: Osprey. p. 45. ISBN 1-84176-707-7.
- ^ Miller, John (1959). Cartwheel: The Reduction of Rabaul. Washington D.C.: Office of the Chief of Military History, U.S. Department of the Army. p. 319.