Japan learned of an Allied invasion in the Solomon Islands and Guadalcanal and quickly dispatched Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa to halt the operation. Mikawa’s fleet navigated skillfully from Rabaul, ...

Frederick Moosbrugger’s claim to fame was a near-perfect destroyer duel at the Battle of Vella Gulf ... as used in the Solomons campaigns of 1942 to 1943. The naval struggle was generally ...

In the years before the war, Rabaul (pop. 8,000 ... They did—until January 1942, when the Japs arrived. From the Solomons, New Guinea. For 19 months, Rabaul has been the main objective of ...

So this is war! Thursday, February 26, 1942 — On our way ... Louisville came in the 26th. Raised hell at Rabaul. Claim 26 ships & 18+ bombers. Heard Mike Barrett was on the Houston, sunk ...

Pease, a pilot with the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, was shot down August 7, 1942, during a raid of the Japanese-occupied island of Rabaul, New Britain, in Papua New Guinea.

Rabaul was a particular target ... Three Bad Months," FOREIGN AFFAIRS, April 1942, and "America at War: The Second Quarter," FOREIGN AFFAIRS, July 1942. [ii] There is some doubt as to the accuracy of ...

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By January 1942, Rabaul was front of mind for prime minister John Curtin, who had assumed office only three months earlier. Upon the declaration of war against Japan in December 1941, the very ...

Elsewhere on the island, other survivors of the battle of Rabaul were captured and taken as prisoners of war by the Japanese. In July 1942, an estimated 845 prisoners of war, including members of Lark ...