| 释义 |
- Allies Ground forces Naval forces
- Japan Ground forces Naval forces
- Notes
- References
{{EngvarB|date=April 2014}}{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2014}}This is an order of battle listing the Allied and Japanese forces involved in the Battle of Arawe from 15 December 1943 to 24 February 1944. AlliesGround forces- Director Task Force[1]
- 112th Cavalry Regimental Combat Team
- 112th Cavalry Regiment
- 148th Field Artillery Battalion (12 x 105mm M2A1 howitzers)
- 59th Engineer Company (Combat)
- 236th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion (Searchlight) less elements
- two batteries of the 470th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion (Automatic Weapons)
- A Company, 1st Amphibious Tractor Battalion USMC
- detachment, 26th Quartermaster War Dog Platoon.
- B Company, 1st Tank Battalion USMC (arrived 12 January)[2]
- Engineer, medical, ordnance and other support units[3]
- 2nd Battalion, 158th Infantry Regiment (force reserve)
- G Company (arrived about 18 December)[4]
- F Company (arrived about 10 January)[5]
Naval forces- Task Force 74.1 (covering force)
- Rear Admiral Victor Crutchley
- Cruisers
- {{HMAS|Australia|D84|6}} (flagship)
- {{HMAS|Shropshire|73|6}}
- Destroyers
- {{HMAS|Arunta|I30|6}}
- {{HMAS|Warramunga|I44|6}}
- {{USS|Ralph Talbot|DD-390|6}}
- {{USS|Helm|DD-388|6}}
- Task Force 76
- Destroyers[6]
- {{USS|Conyngham|DD-371|6}} (flagship)
- {{USS|Shaw|DD-373|6}}
- {{USS|Drayton|DD-366|6}}
- {{USS|Bagley|DD-386|6}}
- {{USS|Reid|DD-369|6}}
- {{USS|Smith|DD-378|6}}
- {{USS|Lamson|DD-367|6}}
- {{USS|Flusser|DD-368|6}}
- {{USS|Mahan|DD-364|6}}
- Transport group[6]
- {{USS|Humphreys|DD-236|6}}[7]
- {{USS|Sands|DD-243|6}}[7]
- {{HMAS|Westralia|1939|6}}
- {{USS|Carter Hall|LSD-3|6}}
- two patrol craft
- two submarine chasers
- Service group[6]
- three LSTs
- three tug boats
- {{USS|Rigel|AD-13|6}}
- Elements, Boat Battalion, 592nd Engineer Boat and Short Regiment, 2nd Engineer Special Brigade (17 x LCVP, 9 x LCM, 2 rocket-firing DUKWs, 1 x repair and salvage boat)[8][9]
- Beach Party Number 1[10]
JapanGround forces- Merkus Garrison (withdrew after the Allied landing)
- Two provisional companies drawn from the 51st Division.[11]
- Komori Force
- 1st Battalion, 81st Infantry Regiment (headquarters, two rifle companies, one machine gun platoon only, arrived 25 December)[12]
- Company, 54th Infantry Regiment[13]
- Engineers[13]
- 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment (arrived 29 December)[14]
- Detachments from other units were also assigned to the Arawe area[13]
Naval forces- Southeast Area Fleet / 25th Air Flotilla (sub-unit of 11th Air Fleet)
- 201 Air Group (Lakunai Airfield, Rabaul)[15]
- 204 Air Group (Lakunai)[15]
- 253 Air Group (Tobera Airfield, Rabaul)[16]
- 2nd Air Flotilla (sub-unit of 1st Air Fleet)
- Hiyō fighter group (Kavieng/Lakunai)[17]
- Ryūhō fighter group (Kavieng/Lakunai)[17]
- Jun'yō fighter group (Lakunai)[18]
Notes1. ^Rottman (2009), p. 24
2. ^Shaw and Kane (1963), p. 392
3. ^Miller (1959), p. 277
4. ^Miller (1959), p. 288
5. ^Miller (1959), p. 289
6. ^1 2 Gill (1968), p. 338
7. ^1 Morison (1958), p. 374
8. ^Miller (1959), p. 283–284
9. ^Shaw and Kane (1963), p. 336
10. ^Barbey (1969), pp. 103–104
11. ^Shaw and Kane (1963), pp. 339–340
12. ^Shaw and Kane (1963), pp. 327–328 and 343
13. ^1 2 Miller (1959), p. 280
14. ^Shaw and Kane (1963), p. 391
15. ^1 Hata (2011), p. 65
16. ^Hata (2011), p. 66
17. ^1 Hata (2011), pp. 66–68
18. ^Hata (2011), p. 68
References{{Commons category|Battle of Arawe}}- {{cite book|last=Barbey|first=Daniel E.|title=MacArthur's Amphibious Navy: Seventh Amphibious Force Operations 1943–1945|publisher=United States Naval Institute|location=Annapolis|year=1969}}
- {{cite web
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| work = The Army Air Forces in World War II
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| last = Miller
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}}- {{cite book |last=Rottman |first=Gordon|authorlink= |title=U.S. Marine Corps World War II Order of Battle : Ground and Air Units in the Pacific War, 1939–1945 |year=2002a |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport |isbn=0-313-31906-5 }}
- {{cite book |last=Rottman |first=Gordon |title=US Special Warfare Units in the Pacific Theatre 1941–45|series=Battle Orders|year=2005 |publisher=Osprey |location= Botley |isbn=1-84176-707-7 }}
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- {{cite web
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