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Parent Page: The South & Southwest Pacific
Subpages: Guadalcanal Guadalcanal Naval War New Georgia New Georgia Naval War
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Orders of Battle: OOB-South Pacific Other Links: Naval War with Japan
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Parent Page: The South & Southwest Pacific
Subpages: Guadalcanal Guadalcanal Naval War New Georgia New Georgia Naval War
Bougainville Bougainville Naval War
Orders of Battle: OOB-South Pacific Other Links: Naval War with Japan
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bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Japan > South & SW Pacific > New Georgia, Solomon Is., © 2025 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 6 Jun 2025
The US June 1943 Bougainville invasion in the central Solomon Islands was part of Operation Cartwheel, the encirclement of Rabaul.
The US June 1943 Bougainville invasion in the central Solomon Islands was part of Operation Cartwheel, the encirclement of Rabaul.
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Japanese ground forces abandoned Guadalcanal in early February 1943. However, Japanese aircraft continued air attacks on Guadancalal by using a forward air base completed in December 1942 at Munda on New Georgia Island.
I don't summarize herein the long and complex New Georgia Campaign, which also included the capture of both Rendova Island and Vella Lavella, an island just west of Kolombangara on the accompanying map. By the time combat on New Georgia ended, the Japanese had evacuated their large garrison on Kolombangara. The naval battles accompanying the New Georgia Campaign are covered in the New Georgia Naval War webpage. |
The New Georgia Campaign
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Sources for Big Pigeon's South & SW Pacific > New Georgia, Solomon Islands webpage:
Pottawattamie Area WWII Dead - South & SW Pacific > New Georgia, Solomon Islands:
† Babcock, Victor Ross, SN 37-428-855, US Army, Harrison & Pott. Cos.
- The New Georgia Campaign map is courtesy of en.wikipedia.com
- The 20 July battle in northern New Georgia during which fifty Americans, including Dale Maassen, were killed is described in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bairoko.
Pottawattamie Area WWII Dead - South & SW Pacific > New Georgia, Solomon Islands:
- Taken from the bigpigeon.us WWII Dead module.
- See also the Solomons Naval War webpage.
- New Georgia was part of Operation Cartwheel.
† Babcock, Victor Ross, SN 37-428-855, US Army, Harrison & Pott. Cos.
- 145th Inf. Regt., 37th Inf. Div.; XIV Corps, KIA 25 Jul 1943, near Munda, New Georgia, Solomon Is.
- WWII Japan > South & SW Pacific > Solomon Is., New Georgia @ Battle of Munda Point
- Co. A, 169th Inf. Regt., 43rd Inf. Div.; KIA 9 Jul 1943 Barike River, NE of Munda, New Georgia, Solomon Is.
- WWII Japan > South & SW Pacific > Solomon Is., New Georgia @ Battle of Munda Point
- Co. E, 161st Inf. Regt., 25th Inf. Div., KIA 2 Aug 1943 New Georgia, Solomon Is.
- WWII Japan > South & SW Pacific > Solomon Is., New Georgia @ Battle of Munda Point
- 4th Marine Raider Bn.; KIA 20 Jul 1943 Bairoko, Kula Gulf area of New Georgia, Solomon Is.;
- WWII Japan > South & SW Pacific > Solomon Is., New Georgia @ Battle of Bairoko