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The Solomon Islands campaign was a major campaign of the Pacific War of World War II. The campaign began with Japanese landings and capture of several areas in the British Solomon Islands and Bougainville , in the Territory of New Guinea , during the first six months of 1942.
This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Wrecks_in_the_Ironbottom_Sound.jpg licensed with Cc-by-sa-3.0-migrated, GFDL 2005-06-04T14:41:18Z Vvulto 1541x1054 (209997 Bytes) Map of the location of shipwrecks in the [[Ironbottom Sound]] in the [[Solomon Islands]].
The Raid on Choiseul (Operation Blissful) was a small unit engagement that occurred from 28 October to 3 November 1943, during the Solomon Islands campaign of the Pacific War. The raid was launched to divert the Japanese from the Allied landings at Cape Torokina on Bougainville Island .
"Ironbottom Sound" (alternatively Iron Bottom Sound or Ironbottomed Sound or Iron Bottom Bay) is the name given by Allied sailors to the stretch of water at the southern end of The Slot between Guadalcanal, Savo Island, and Florida Island of the Solomon Islands, because of the dozens of ships and planes that sank there during the naval actions ...
The Solomon Islands campaign was a major campaign of the Pacific War of World War II. The campaign began with Japanese landings and occupation of several areas in the British Solomon Islands and Bougainville Island , in the Territory of New Guinea , during the first six months of 1942.
Vilu Military Museum, also known as the Vilu War Museum, is a small open air museum in Vilu, on the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. The museum houses the remains of American and Japanese equipment left over from the Guadalcanal campaign during World War II .
It marked the end of a three-month fight to capture the central Solomon Islands, as part of the Solomon Islands campaign. The battle took place at the end of the ground campaign on Vella Lavella, as the Japanese sought to evacuate the 600-strong garrison from the island. The garrison had become hemmed into a small pocket on the northern end of ...
Solomon Islands in World War II — the British Solomon Islands in the South West Pacific theatre of World War II. Subcategories. This category has the following 7 ...