Operation Inmate was an attack that took place on the atoll that is how far northeast of New Guinea?
Operation Inmate Operation Inmate was an attack by the British Pacific Fleet against Japanese positions on Truk Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean during the Second World War. The attacks against the lightly defended islands on 14 and 15 June 1945 were conducted to provide combat experience for the aircraft carrier HMS "Implacable" and several of the fleet's cruisers and destroyers ahead of their involvement in more demanding operations off Japan.
Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (PNG; , ; Tok Pisin: "Papua Niugini" ; Hiri Motu: "Papua Niu Gini"), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is Port Moresby. The western half of New Guinea forms the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua.