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This is a list of wars involving Papua New Guinea, German New Guinea or Territory of New Guinea.

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results Casualties
Battle of Bita Paka (11 September 1914)
Raising the Australian flag in Angoram, 16 December 1914.
  Germany  Australia Defeat
30 Melanese police killed, 10 wounded
Australian occupation of German New Guinea (September–November 1914)
Australian Fleet entering Simpson Harbour in 1914.
  Germany  Australia Defeat
85 killed and 15 wounded
New Guinea Campaign (1942–1945)
Australian forces attack Japanese positions near Buna.
  Australia

 United States
 United Kingdom
 Netherlands

 Imperial Japan Victory
42,000 total[1]
Coconut War (August–September 1980)  Vanuatu
 Papua New Guinea
 Solomon Islands 		Nagriamel rebels Victory
?
Bougainville Civil War (1988–1998)
Ambulances in Arawa, 1998 destroyed in conflict.
  Papua New Guinea
  • Buka Liberation Front
  • Bougainville Resistance Force

Supported by:
 Australia

Bougainville Interim Government (BIG)

Supported by:
 Solomon Islands
 Fiji (allegedly)

300+ PNGDF soldiers killed
Several thousand wounded

References

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  1. ^ New Guinea: The US Army Campaigns of World War II. 8,500 prior to January 1943, 24,000 between January 1943 and April 1944, and 9,500 from April 1944 to the end of the war. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
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