Back Schlacht um Sansapor German Bataille de Sansapor French Pertempuran Sansapor ID サンサポールの戦い Japanese
| Battle of Sansapor | |||||||
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| Part of World War II, Pacific War | |||||||
 Columns of troop-packed landing craft en route for the invasion of Sansapor. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 United States |
 Japan | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Franklin C. Sibert William Fechteler Russell S. Berkey |
Unknown | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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Task Force 78 |
35th Division | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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14 killed 35 wounded[1] |
385 killed 215 captured[1] | ||||||
The Battle of Sansapor (Operation Globetrotter) was an amphibious landing and subsequent operations around Sansapor, Dutch New Guinea on the Vogelkop Peninsula during World War II.[2]
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
Smithwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Morison, Samuel Eliot (2001). History of United States Naval Operations in World War II: New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944 – August 1944. University of Illinois Press. pp. 140–4. ISBN 0-252-07038-0.