{"id":5860,"date":"2015-12-15T15:36:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T21:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5860"},"modified":"2015-12-15T15:36:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T21:36:30","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-13-19-december-1943-the-battle-of-arawe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5860","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 13&#8211;19 December 1943: The Battle of Arawe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_5862\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=5862\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5862\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5862\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5862\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Warawe-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"The US 112th Cavalry Regiment moves through a coconut plantation in Arawe [Public domain]\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Warawe-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Warawe-150x129.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Warawe.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The US 112th Cavalry Regiment moves through a coconut plantation in Arawe [Public domain]<\/p><\/div>This week in the war, on 15 December 1943, the US 112th Cavalry Regiment landed on the west coast of the Arawe peninsula in New Britain. The Japanese defenses were\u00a0quickly overcome. Landings on the east coast of the peninsula encountered fierce opposition from Japanese\u00a0fighters and bombers.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese were heavily outnumbered and their forces were defeated within a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in the war, on 15 December 1943, the US 112th Cavalry Regiment landed on the west coast of the Arawe peninsula in New Britain. The Japanese defenses were\u00a0quickly overcome. Landings on the east coast of the peninsula encountered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5860\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[945],"class_list":["post-5860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-war-ii","tag-arawe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5863,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860\/revisions\/5863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}