AWM 016424 (Australian War Memorial)
American troops of "Task Force Michaelmas" haul their 37mm anti-tank gun up the beach at Saidor, 10 January 1944. Built around the 126th Regimental Combat Team, 32nd Infantry Division, the American task force landed at Saidor on 2 January 1944 with the objective of seizing the nearby airfield. This was accomplished on the first day and thereafter the Americans expanded their perimeter inland and tried to block the Japanese avenues of retreat along the coast.

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