Landings at Cape Torokina

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Landings at Cape Torokina
Part of the Pacific Theater of World War II
1st Battalion 3rd Marines engaged during the landing at Cape Torokina.
Date November 1, 1943 Location Bougainville in the South Pacific Result Allied victory
Belligerents
United States	Empire of Japan
Commanders
Roy Geiger Theodore S. Wilkinson	Harukichi Hyakutake Masatane Kanda

The Landings at Cape Torokina, were the beginning of the Bougainville campaign in World War II, and occurred on 1943-11-01 on Bougainville Island in the South Pacific between the Empire of Japan and Allied forces.

[edit] References

• Chapin, John C. (1997). TOP OF THE LADDER: Marine Operations in the Northern Solomons (English). World War II Commemorative series 1. Marine Corps History and Museums Division. Retrieved on 2006-08-30. Also available at: www.ibiblio.org
• Major John M. Rentz, USMCR (1946). Bougainville and the Northern Solomons. Historical Branch, Headquarters, United States Marine Corps. Retrieved on 2007-01-24.
• Shaw, Henry I.; Douglas T. Kane (1963). Volume II: Isolation of Rabaul. History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II. Retrieved on 2006-10-18.

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