battle, interwar and Second World War

Battle of Wareo

Battle of Wareo was a battle fought on 27 November 1943 at Wareo, in what is now Papua New Guinea. It was part of the Pacific War, which ran from 1941 to 1945. The recorded result: Allied victory. Recorded strength: ~ 13,000 against ~ 4,600.

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Australians from the 2/23rd Battalion raise the Union flag over Wareo, New Guinea, 9 December 1943. GROUP OF OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE 2/23RD AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION, GROUPED AROUND THE UNIT VICTO. Robert John Buchanan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Record

Date	27 November 1943
Place	Wareo, Papua New Guinea 6.450S, 147.783E
Part of	Pacific War (1941 to 1945)
Kind	Battle, interwar and Second World War
Result	Allied victory
Belligerents	Australia	Empire of Japan
Commanders	George Wootten	Shigeru Katagiri
Strength	~ 13,000	~ 4,600
Casualties and losses	47 killed, 332 wounded	451 killed and 1 captured

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Battle of Sattelberg 1943, 4.4 km
Battle of Scarlet Beach 1943, 8.2 km
Battle of Sio 1943, 72 km
Battle of John's Knoll–Trevor's Ridge 1943, 100 km
Battle of the Bismarck Sea 1943, 103 km

In the same war

Before: Battle of Sattelberg 17 November 1943
After: Battle of Arawe December 1943
All 71 engagements of Pacific War

Elsewhere in 1943

Battle of Wareo is one of 1,912 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 39 in present-day Papua New Guinea.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q4872710, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Wareo, revision 1370593259, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.