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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]].
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 ...
The Japanese occupation of the Solomon Islands was the period in the history of Solomon Islands between 1942 and 1945 when Imperial Japanese forces occupied Solomon Islands during World War II. From 1942 to 1943, and even in some islands till 1945, Imperial Japanese Army forces occupied the Solomon Islands where were the headquarters of the ...
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 .
The Battle of Savo Island, also known as the First Battle of Savo Island and in Japanese sources as the First Battle of the Solomon Sea (第一次ソロモン海戦, Dai-ichi-ji Soromon Kaisen), and colloquially among Allied Guadalcanal veterans as the Battle of the Five Sitting Ducks, [4] [5] was a naval battle of the Solomon Islands campaign of the Pacific War of World War II between the ...
The Bougainville campaign was a series of land and naval battles of the Pacific campaign of World War II between Allied forces and the Empire of Japan, named after the island of Bougainville. It was part of Operation Cartwheel , the Allied grand strategy in the South Pacific .
Pages in category "Battles and operations of World War II involving the Solomon Islands" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .