Talk:Bougainville campaign (1943–45)

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[edit] Which is correct?

I'm a bit confused. The article title says 1944-45, but the article itself says 1943-1944. Which is correct? -Etoile 00:00, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Neither. Fighting on Bougainville lasted until the end of the war (eg, 1943-45). While the article does not currently mention it, after the US forces left Bougainville the Australian Army launched a major offensive against the Japanese. --Nick Dowling 05:51, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

I'll be working on this article eventually and I'll make sure to include the final stage of the battle that included Australian troops. If you know of any references that detail the Australian portion of the battle, please list them in the references section. Thanks, Cla68 14:23, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

One more thing, whoever originally laid out the Solomon Islands campaign, placed an article for the land battle of Empress Augusta Bay (1943) as a seperate article from the later Bougainville campaign (this article). I'm not sure if they should be separate articles. Cla68 00:37, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Japanese statistics

At the moment, citing Gailey, we have 65,000 troops and 44,000 dead. However the AWM website says: "At the surrender it was found that in November 1944 there had been 42,000 Japanese on the island. At the surrender in September 1945, 23,571 were left; 8,500 died in battle and 9,800 of disease and malnutrition."[1] I wonder where Gailey gets the other 23-24,000 from. Grant | Talk 16:09, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

I'll check Gailey's book and see what source he cites for his numbers. CLA 01:07, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Gailey is insistent that there were 65,000 Japanese troops on the island. Rottman's book, however, states that there were 38,000 Japanese troops on Bougainville at the time of the Allied invasion and that 7,000 more arrived later. Since Rottman's figures are closer to AWM's numbers, I think we should use those. I'll make the changes and put Gailey's figures in the footnote. CLA 12:53, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

I agree, thanks. Grant | Talk 01:21, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

By the way, I think the Allied forces numbers in the infobox may be too high also because Gailey is vague on the exact number of Allied soldiers involved. CLA 01:38, 12 June 2007 (UTC)