Bougainville campaign (1944-45)

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	Battle of Cape Esperance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Cape Esperance, originally known as the Second Battle of Savo Island, was a naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on the night of October 11, 1942 at the entrance to the strait between Savo Island and Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
		The line-ahead tactic worked well at Cape Esperance, but the later battles of Tassafaronga and Kolombangara showed that at night linear gunfire tactics — the gun flashes lighting up ships and revealing their positions — were highly vulnerable to torpedoes.
		On October 11, 1942 the Japanese sent a force under Rear Admiral Aritomo Goto to bombard the airfield and reinforce the Japanese attackers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Esperance (532 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Bougainville Campaign (11/1/1943 - 9/3/1945) - Oct 21st, 2003
		The Bougainville campaign was a politicians war and served no better purpose than to keep men in the fight....Every risk taken on Bougainville was one that could not be avoided; every life was begrudged.
		The Bougainville campaign remains one of the most resounding successes of the war in the Pacific in terms of the smooth coordination between the Navy and Marine Corps.
		In March 1944, a full scale Japanese offensive against the American positions was repulsed but the Americans did not extend their perimeter further and were in the same positions when the Australian II Corps under the command of Lieutenant General Stanley Savige took command in December 1944.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/1004880/posts (7750 words)

	Second World War
		The Australian Army also began a new series of campaigns in 1944 against isolated Japanese garrisons stretching from Borneo to Bougainville; this involved more Australian troops than were used at any other time in the war.
		The value of the second campaign, fought in Borneo in 1945, to the overall war effort remains the subject of continuing debate; Australian troops were still fighting in Borneo when the war ended in August 1945.
		Australian troops were mainly engaged in land battles in New Guinea, the defeat of the Japanese at Wau and clearing Japanese soldiers from the Huon Peninsula - Australia's largest and most complex offensive of the war, not completed until April 1944.
	www.awm.gov.au /atwar/ww2.htm (1137 words)

	Helion & Company Ltd > BOUGAINVILLE 1943-45, THE FORGOTTEN CAMPAIGN
		Campaigns & Battles (Pacific & Far East 1941-45)
		THE BATTLE FOR GINKEL HEATH NEAR EDE, 17 AND 18 SEPTEMBER 1944
		STANDARTENFUHRER JOHANNES MUHLENKAMP UND SEINE MANNER TEIL I (BIS FRÜHJAHR 1944)
	www.helion.co.uk /product.php?xProd=1877&xSec=105035 (224 words)

	Second World War
		The Australian Army also began a new series of campaigns in 1944 against isolated Japanese garrisons stretching from Borneo to Bougainville; this involved more Australian troops than were used at any other time in the war.
		The value of the second campaign, fought in Borneo in 1945, to the overall war effort remains the subject of continuing debate; Australian troops were still fighting in Borneo when the war ended in August 1945.
		Long, The six years war: Australia in the 1939-45 war, Australian War Memorial and the Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1973.
	www.awm.gov.au /atwar/ww2.htm (224 words)

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