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	Battle of Rabaul (1942) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Rabaul, around the main town of Rabaul on the island of New Britain, in early February 1942, represented a strategically-significant defeat of Allied forces by Japan, in the Pacific campaign of World War II.
		In the early hours of January 23, 1942, the 20,000 Japanese marines of the South Seas Force, under Maj. Gen Tomitaro Horii, began to land.
		At least 800 soldiers and civilian prisoners of war lost their lives on July 1, 1942, when the ship on which they were sent from Rabaul to Japan, the Montevideo Maru, was sunk off the north coast of Luzon by the US submarine Sturgeon (SS-187).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Rabaul_(1942) (820 words)

	Battle of the Eastern Solomons: August 24, 1942
		Battle of the Eastern Solomons: August 24, 1942
		In Rabaul, it was decided to collect the 2500 man force then stationed at Guam, 3500 soldiers deployed at Palau and a 1000 Imperial Marines, and set them against Guadalcanal's defenders.
		Yamamoto's Operation KA - the plan which precipitated the Eastern Solomons battle - had two objectives: to achieve the crushing victory over the American carriers which had escaped him at Midway, and to support the landing of the 3000 men being transported from Rabaul to Guadalcanal.
	www.cv6.org /1942/solomons/solomons.htm (1016 words)

	Rabaul - Fortress Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The small Australian garrison at Rabaul was overwhelmed by the Japanese on January 23, 1942.
		Rabaul was converted into a veritable fortress, and major supply base for the planned expansion into mainland New Guinea, Papua, the Solomons, and Australia.
		Rabaul is located on the Gazelle Peninsula at the Northern tip of the island of New Britain.
	www.milart.com.au /rabaul/AAFortressIndex.htm (186 words)

	1942-1943: PAPUA
		In the Battle of the Coral Sea (7-8 May 1942), the Japanese invasion was thwarted by US carrier-based aircraft and the Australian Navy who forced the Japanese armada back to Rabaul.
		After an even bigger defeat and loss of aircraft carriers at the Battle of Midway (3-6 June 1942), the Japanese decided to abandon their invasion by sea and to instead attack Port Moresby by an overland advance from Buna on the north coast of New Guinea.
		Battles along the Kokoda Track, during July through September 1942, were lopsided, with small units of the Australian militia (not the regular Army, the Australian Imperial Force) facing the hardened Japanese regulars.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_history_ww2_ops_battles_1942papua.php (1429 words)

	Medal of Honor, USN, Battle, Java, Sea, Rabaul, Doolittle, Coral, Midway, Makin, Guadalcanal, Cape, Esperance, ...
		Battle of the Eastern Solomons - On the 24th August, Japanese and American carrier groups covering supply operations to Guadalcanal were in action to the east of the Solomons island chain.
		Battle of Cape Esperance - Off the north tip of Guadalcanal on the night of the 11th/12th October 1942, a U.S. cruiser force was in action with a similar Japanese force.
		Battle of Tassafaronga - On the 30th November in the same area, an eight-destroyer 'Tokyo Express' was intercepted by U.S. cruisers and destroyers.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2USMoH1942.htm (8185 words)

	CORAL SEA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Americans had met the enemy in open battle for the first time, they had missed a great deal due to the fogging of the windshields of the bombers, but they believed they had sunk two destroyers, a freighter, four gunboats, beached a light cruiser, and damaged another destroyer, a freighter, and a seaplane.
		Neosho was unsalvageable, and was bombed and sunk by Henley at 2:28 P.M. On the face of it, the Battle of the Coral Sea appeared to be a victory for the Japanese.
		The significance of the Battle of the Coral Sea was that the Americans had foiled the occupation of Port Moresby and the knockout of Australian air power.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/WW2Timeline/coral.html (3846 words)

	Target Rabaul: Campaigns
		The flames of war erupted in both New Guinea and the Solomon islands in early 1942, with the Japanese invading Rabaul and Kavieng in the Solomon Islands on 14 January 1942, Wewak and Lae/Salamaua in New Guinea on March 9, 1942.
		In fact up to December 1942 the JNAF had to provide fighter and strike aircraft to cover both area's, as it was not until then that the JAAF moved into New Guinea in force with the advent of the 11th Sentai, JAAF, on 18 December 1942.
		This should be possible for, with Rabaul strong and the American coastal flank exposed to attack, the whole region enclosed by the Islands of New Britian, New Guinea, The Dutch East Indies, the Phillipines and Truk is relatively safe from attack by the USN.
	www.targetrabaul.com /campaigns.html (2962 words)

	Pacific War - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Between 1942 and 1945, there were four main Allied theaters/commands in the war against Japan: China, the Pacific Ocean Areas, the South East Asia Command and the South West Pacific Area.
		At the Battle of the Java Sea, in late February and early March, the Japanese Navy inflicted a resounding defeat on the main ABDA naval force, under Admiral Karel Doorman.
		In early 1942, the governments of smaller powers began to push for an inter-governmental Asia-Pacific war council, based in Washington D.C. A council was established in London, with a subsidiary body in Washington.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=342641 (3408 words)

	Battle of the Coral Sea - Fought off Townsville
		But, during the Battle of the Coral Sea, from 4th to 8th May 1942, they were each issued with 20 rounds of ammunition and sent to the coast near Alligator Creek, just south of Townsville, and told to fix bayonets and face out to sea.
		On 7 May 1942, nineteen B-17's from the 435th Bomb Squadron were returning from a bombing raid in New Guinea when they spotted what they thought was the Japanese fleet.
		During the Battle of the Coral Sea, the US radar station at Paluma manned by the 565th Signal Battalion tracked a target aircraft early one afternoon coming in from the ocean and crossing the coast about 30 miles north of Paluma.
	home.st.net.au /~dunn/coralsea.htm (2539 words)

	Remembering 1942 [Australian War Memorial]
		1942 was a decisive year for Australia and for the war.
		In 1942 Japan conquered south-east Asia and Australia came under attack until its forces held and defeated the Japanese in Papua New Guinea.
		The Memorial's Remembering 1942 history conference, was held on Friday, 31 May and Saturday, 1 June 2002.
	www.awm.gov.au /atwar/remembering1942/index.htm (276 words)

	A Guadalcanal Chronology & Order of Battle
		It skipped over the Battle of the Tenaru River in August and did not provide a scenario for the November offensive that the Japanese would have mounted if so many of their forces and supplies had not been sunk at sea after the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal (12-14 November 1942).
		The intensity of the battles at sea and on land was due in great part to the rough equality of the forces involved.
		The five battles in the waters off Guadalcanal, which include the two nights of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, are listed in sequence to the left of the island.
	www.friesian.com /history/guadal.htm (3871 words)

	The Battle for Australia 1942-43
		On 23 January 1942, Japanese troops landed at Rabaul in the Australian Territory of New Guinea and overwhelmed the heavily outnumbered Australian garrison.
		At the Battle for Australia and Pacific War web-sites, the viewer is taken from Pearl Harbor to the great naval Battle of Midway in the central Pacific which destroyed Japan's naval supremacy over the United States Pacific Fleet and put an end to Japan's capacity to invade Australia.
		Permission to illustrate the Battle for Australia and Pacific War Web-sites with "The Famous Four Minutes" painting by internationally acclaimed aviation artist, the late R.G. Smith, was generously given by his daughter Mrs Sharlyn Marsh.
	www.users.bigpond.com /battleforaustralia (917 words)

	7-8 MAY 1942: CORAL SEA
		During the Battle of the Coral Sea, a heavy explosion on board USS Lexington (CV-2) blows an aircraft over her side, 8 May 1942.
		The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought on 7-8 May 1942 in the waters southwest of the Solomon Islands and east of New Guinea, was the first of six battles between opposing aircraft carrier forces in the Pacific Theater of Operations in World War II.
		In the spring of 1942, Japan's expansion plans aimed for control of the Coral Sea through seizure of the Southern Solomon Islands and Port Moresby, on the southeastern coast of New Guinea.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_history_ww2_ops_battles_1942coralsea.php (1002 words)

	Paramount Battles Involving Essex Class Carriers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In early 1942, the United States navy had a limited number of carriers and was therefore cautious in their deployment.
		The defining battle for the Essex Class Carriers came on November 11, 1943 while fighiting the major Japaese airbase of Rabaul Island.
		The battle at Rabaul proved that carriers were not only a formidable offensive weapon but a defensive weapon as well.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/st/~magneson/battles.html (439 words)

	DiF Campaign Overview
		Dan sent some of Japan’s best to do battle, and even though both Japanese leaders were shot down, the enemy were able to destroy a Corsair and a bomber and keep me from inflicting significant damage on the airfield.
		The enemy pilots were unrelenting in their attacks, and at the end of the battle only one SBD was left to drop his bombs, which wasn’t enough to do more than lightly damage the target.
		So after the first round of battles, I managed to score exactly 0 points, and give up 4 to Dan by not defending the troops on Guadalcanal.
	www.battlefront.com /products/dif/solomon_aar_1.html (1356 words)

	Coral Sea; naval battle that 'saved' Australia
		May 4-8, 1942 - The Battle of the Coral Sea was a major air and naval engagement during World War II, fought between the Americans, Australians and Japanese on May 7-8, 1942.
		In the battle, the Japanese lost the light carrier Shoho and the U.S. lost the carrier, USS Lexington (CV 2).
		We are grateful for American intervention in the Battle of the Coral Sea but the fact is that only the ANZAC force stood in the way of a Japanese capture of Port Moresby and the complete isolation of Australia from the rest of the world.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-battles/ww2/coral_sea.htm (2521 words)

	The Battle of Savo Island: August 9th, 1942
		The Northern Group was born out of necessity: as it made no sense to split the Southern Group's experienced team up, the three remaining heavy cruisers naturally went together, while the lighter forces of Admiral Scott remained in the east to safeguard the sound from enemy light forces.
		Admiral Mikawa's approach was made even easier when Rabaul signalled him that air strikes had already accounted for a good deal of the enemy forces in the sound, including eight transports (which may have been important in his later decision to leave the transports alone instead of going after them).
		As the battle unfolded, further problems reduced Mikawa's line, now merely a loosely connected and very broad bar instead of a neat line, but it was not later than 0220 that all three U.S. cruisers were reduced to swimming wrecks.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/battles/savo_island.htm (4150 words)

	Carrier Battles in the Pacific - 1942 ... and other WWII battles in the Pacific (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Before this battle, every time the two fleets clashed, both were able to see their enemy.
		The Battle of the Coral Sea was the first time that two fleets clashed, and that neither fleet saw each other.
		She sank on June 7, 1942 at 0458, after the outcome of the whole battle (and war) had been decided in the favor of the United States Navy.
	www.everblue.net /1942/coralsea.php (4845 words)

	Timeline 1942
		1942 Jun 3, Japanese carrier-based planes strafed Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands as a diversion of the attack on Midway island.
		1942 Jun 7, The Japanese invaded Attu and Kiska in the Aleutian Islands.
		From Aug. to Feb. 1943, The Battle of Stalingrad, 600 miles southeast of Moscow, was fought and ended with the encirclement and destruction of the German 6th Army Group.
	timelines.ws /20thcent/1942.HTML (15082 words)

	Battle of Rabaul - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name Battle of Rabaul may refer to several military actions which occurred in or near Rabaul, on New Britain in the Bismarck Islands during World War I and the Pacific campaign of World War II.
		The occupation of Rabaul in 1914 by the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force.
		The air attack on Rabaul in late 1943.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Rabaul (137 words)

	HyperWar: U.S. Navy in World War II
		The Battle of Savo Island, 9 August 1942
		The Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 23--25 August 1942
		The Bougainville Landing and the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, 27 0ct.-2 Nov. 1943
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN (974 words)

	Japanese Navy at Guadalcanal 1942: Japanese Navy Order of Battle
		Rabaul: APs Nankai Maru, Myoko Maru, Yamafuka Maru, Yusukawa Maru, Kinai Maru, Kinryu Maru, Meiyo Maru
		About 10 of these units had been organized by the beginning of the war in December, 1941, and an equal number were organized in 1942.
		Along with the 11th-16th Naval Construction Units and the 80th -- 85th Naval Garrison Units, the SNLF were often part of Naval Base Forces in the Solomons, which had been established at Guadalcanal--Tulagi, Shortland, Rabaul, and Kavieng.
	www.magweb.com /sample/ww2/co01guao.htm (407 words)

	Japanese Navy at Guadalcanal 1942: Japanese Aircraft Order of Battle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Japanese Navy at Guadalcanal 1942: Japanese Aircraft Order of Battle
		Eighth Fleet maintained at Rabaul 20 Type 97 'Kate' torpedo bombers and 20 Type 00 'Zeke' fighters.
		Reinforcement aircraft were supplied by Second, Third, and Eleventh Fleets.
	www.magweb.com /sample/ww2/co01guaa.htm (201 words)

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