Battle of Milne Bay order of battle

This is an order of battle listing the Japanese and Allied forces involved in the Battle of Milne Bay from 25 August – 7 September 1942.

Three men in shorts, wearing steel helmets but one is shirtless. Two carry rifles while the third has a submachinegun.
Australian troops at Milne Bay

Japanese forces

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Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa

Assault Force

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Rear Admiral Mitsaharu Matsuyama

Source: Bullard, Steven (2007). Japanese Army Operations in the South Pacific Area New Britain and Papua Campaigns, 1942–43. Senshi Sōshō (translated excerpts). Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australian War Memorial. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-9751904-8-7.

Allied forces

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Major General Cyril Clowes
Headquarters
Artillery
  • 9th Battery, 2/5th Field Regiment
  • 4th Battery, 101st Anti-Tank Regiment
  • 2/6th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery
  • Section, 23rd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery
  • Headquarters, 33rd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery
  • 440th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Gun Station
  • 441st Heavy Anti-Aircraft Gun Station
  • 2/9th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery (less E Troop), an Independent Battery of the 2/3rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment
  • Detachment, Signals, 2/3rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment
  • Detachment, 3rd Light Anti-Aircraft Workshop Section, 2/3rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment
Engineers
  • 24th Field Company
  • 2/4th Field Company
  • Detachment, No. 2 Dock Operating Company
  • No. 5 Section, 1st Bomb Disposal Company
Signals
  • Headquarters Company, Milne Force Signals
  • No. 1 Company, Milne Force Signals
  • Headquarters No. 2 Company, Milne Force Signals
  • Headquarters No. 3 Company, Milne Force Signals
  • Detachment, New Guinea Force Signals
Infantry
  • 7th Infantry Brigade Defence Platoon
Supply and Transport
  • 25th Company, Australian Army Service Corps
  • 2/6th Company, Australian Army Service Corps
Ordnance
  • 101st Independent Brigade Group Ordnance Workshop
  • 101st Independent Brigade Group Ordnance Field Park
  • 18th Brigade Section, 7th Division Ordnance Workshop
  • 18th Brigade Section, 7th Division Ordnance Field Park
  • 123rd Forward Ordnance Depot
  • 23rd Forward Ammunition Depot
Medical
  • 11th Field Ambulance
  • 2/5th Field Ambulance
  • 101st Casualty Clearing Station
  • 308th Dental Unit
  • 368th Dental Unit
Miscellaneous

7th Infantry Brigade

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18th Infantry Brigade

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United States Army Units

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  • Platoon, 101st Coast Artillery (Anti-Aircraft) Battalion
  • C Battery, 104th Coast Artillery (Anti-Aircraft) Battalion
  • 709th Airborne Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battery
  • Company E, 46th Engineers
  • 43rd Engineers (less Headquarters and E Company)
  • Port Detachment
  • Company A, 394th Quartermaster Battalion
  • Station Hospital

Allied Air Forces

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RAAF

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US Army Air Corps

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  • 8th Fighter Control Squadron
  • 694th Signal Plotting Platoon

Source:"War Diary, 11th Division General Staff Branch, August 1942, Appendix A, AWM52, 1/5/25-001" (PDF). Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 8 December 2011.