 Yaula was captured on 4 April linking up with elements of the 2/2nd Commando Squadron.A few days later, the 11th Division, under the command of Major General Allan Boase took over from the 7th, and they subsequently linked up with US forces on the coast around Rimba as they pushed forward along an axis bounded by the Kabenau and Nuru Rivers.Bogadjim was reached on 13 April and on 23 April troops from the 8th Brigade came ashore there, effecting a link up between the 5th Division, which had been advancing along the coast from Saidor, which had been secured by US and Australian forces in January – February 1944.