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Swinger Bay, is a bay on the north west shore of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea. Named by John Moresby after HMS Swinger. It is also known as Stringer Bay.^[1]

Swinger Bay was selected as a site for an amphibious training centre in 1943 during World War II, which relocated from HMAS Assault, Port Stephens, Australia. Construction started in late 1943 by a detachment of the 91st Naval Construction Battalion (Seabees), whose main element had arrived 21 October 1943 from Port Hueneme, California in {{MS|Sea Witch|1940|2}}.{{sfn| 91st Naval Construction Battalion}} The detachment built facilities, on a site noted as being high and relatively dry, for about 800 men and 30 officers that included storage, shops, housing, roads, water and electrical systems and a {{convert|350|ft|m|1}} jetty to water of {{convert|12|ft|m|1}} depth.{{sfn| 91st Naval Construction Battalion}} The 91st was relieved by 105th Naval Construction Battalion in January 1944.

The amphibious training centre consisted of housing for 1,500 men in quonset huts and developed {{convert|2000|ft|m}} of waterfront for training purposes.

In March 1945, the amphibious training centre closed and relocated to Subic Bay, Philippines.

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1. ^"Stringer" is the "approved" U.S. name with "Swinger" the "variant in the official National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Geonames Search {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120115173351/http://geonames.nga.mil/ggmaviewer/default.asp |date=2012-01-15 }} results. U.S. military records and histories of the war period use "Stringer" instead of "Swinger" for the bay.

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{{Citation | last= 91st Naval Construction Battalion | first= |title=91st Naval Construction Battalion—Historical Information| place=Washington, D.C. | publisher=Naval History And Heritage Command | series= | volume= | origyear= | year= | page= | pages= | language= |url=http://www.history.navy.mil/museums/seabee/UnitListPages/NCB/091%20NCB.pdf |ref=harv}}
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| last = Rottman
| first = Gordon L.
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| year = 2001
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| title = World War II Pacific Island Guide: A Geo-Military Study
| publisher = Greenwood Press
| location = Westport, Connecticut
| isbn = 0-313-31395-4}}{{refend}}{{coord|10|19|S|150|25|E|display=title|region:PG_type:waterbody_source:GNS-enwiki}}
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2 : Bays of Papua New Guinea|Geography of Milne Bay Province

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