In Papua New Guinea in 1944

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Date of Game 1944
Location Papua New Guinea
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Steven R. Bullock, "Playing for Their Nation: Baseball and the American Military During World War II" p. 73, citing an article in the Sporting News in 1944, says U.S. soldiers played night baseball on an old Japanese artillery field, using flood lights for lighting.

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Steven R. Bullock, "Playing for Their Nation: Baseball and the American Military During World War II" p. 73, 

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Found by Bruce Allardice



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