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Bougainville, 1943-1945 : The Forgotten Campaign /

"" The 1943 invasion of Bougainville, largest and northernmost of the Solomon Islands, and the naval battles during the campaign for the island, contributed heavily to the defeat of the Japanese in the Pacific War. Here Harry Gailey presents the definitive account of the long and bitter fi...

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Autor principal: Gailey, Harry A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 1991.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Cover; Bougainville 1943-1945; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps; Introduction; 1. Japanese Advances and Retreats; 1. Solomon Islands and Adjacent Areas; 2. Allied Planning; 2. New Georgia Campaign, 30 June-4 August 1943; 3. Bougainville Island; 3. The Treasuries and Choiseul; 4. Treasury Islands Landings, 27 October 1943; 5. Choiseul Operation, 28 October-3 November 1943; 4. Establishing the Beachhead; 6. Cape Torokina Landings, 1 November 1943; 5. Naval Actions; 6. Expanding the Perimeter; Illustrations; 7. Battle of Piva Forks, 19-25 November 1943 
505 0 |a 8. The Perimeter to 15 December 19437. The Rear Areas; 8. Consolidating the Perimeter; 9. Japanese Counterattack, 9-17 March 1944; 9. The Japanese Counterattack; 10. The 93d Division Affair; 11. The Final Phase; 10. Australian Advances in Northern Bougainville, January-June 1945; 11. Australian Operations in Southern Bougainville, January-June 1945; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index 
520 |a "" The 1943 invasion of Bougainville, largest and northernmost of the Solomon Islands, and the naval battles during the campaign for the island, contributed heavily to the defeat of the Japanese in the Pacific War. Here Harry Gailey presents the definitive account of the long and bitter fighting that took place on that now all-but-forgotten island. A maze of swamps, rivers, and rugged hills overgrown with jungle, Bougainville afforded the Allies a strategic site for airbases from which to attack the Japanese bastion of Rabaul. By February of 1944 the Japanese air strength at Rabaul had inde. 
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