Landings at Cape Torokina
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| Part of the Pacific Theater of World War II | |||||||
 1st Battalion 3rd Marines engaged during the landing at Cape Torokina. |
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Empire of Japan | ||||||
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| Roy Geiger Theodore S. Wilkinson |
Harukichi Hyakutake Masatane Kanda |
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The Landings at Cape Torokina, were the beginning of the Bougainville campaign in World War II, and occurred on 1943-11-01 on Bougainville Island in the South Pacific between the Empire of Japan and Allied forces.
[edit] References
- Chapin, John C. (1997). TOP OF THE LADDER: Marine Operations in the Northern Solomons (English). World War II Commemorative series 1. Marine Corps History and Museums Division. Retrieved on 2006-08-30. Also available at: www.ibiblio.org
- Major John M. Rentz, USMCR (1946). Bougainville and the Northern Solomons. Historical Branch, Headquarters, United States Marine Corps. Retrieved on 2007-01-24.
- Shaw, Henry I.; Douglas T. Kane (1963). Volume II: Isolation of Rabaul. History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II. Retrieved on 2006-10-18.
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