Operasi Cartwheel

Operasi Cartwheel (1943–1944) adalah sebuah strategi militer utama untuk Sekutu di teater Pasifik pada Perang Dunia II. Operasi tersebut dipimpin oleh Komandan Sekutu Tertinggi di Wilayah Pasifik Barat Laut (WPBL)—Jenderal Douglas MacArthur—yang mengerahkan kekuatan di sepanjang pesisir timur laut Nugini dan pulau-pulau di sekitarnya yang diduduki. Pasukan Sekutu dari komando Wilayah Samudera Pasifik—dibawah kepemimpinan Laksamana Chester W. Nimitz—mengerahkan kekuatan di sepanjang Kepulauan Solomon sampai Bougainville. Pasukan Sekutu yang terlibat berasal dari Australia, Belanda, Selandia Baru, AS dan berbagai Kepulauan Pasifik.

Bagian timur dari Teritorial Nugini, dan utara Kepulauan Solomon; wilayah dimana Operasi Cartwheel terjadi, dari Juni 1943.

Referensi

• Frank, Richard B (2000). "Chapter 1, Strategy, Command and the Solomons". Guadlacanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle. New York, NY, USA: Random House. ISBN 0-394-58875-4. 
• Griffith, Brig. Gen. Samuel B (USMC) (1974). "Part 96: Battle For the Solomons". History of the Second World War. Hicksville, NY, USA: BPC Publishing. 
• Bergerud, Eric M. (2000). Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific. Boulder, CO, USA: Westview Press. ISBN 0-8133-3869-7. 
• Birdsall, Steve (1977). Flying buccaneers: The illustrated story of Kenney's Fifth Air Force. Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-03218-8. 
• Boyington, Gregory "Pappy" (1977) [1958]. Baa Baa Black Sheep. New York: Bantam Books. ISBN 0-553-26350-1. 
• Gamble, Bruce (2000). Black Sheep One: The Life of Gregory "Pappy" Boyington. New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-89141-801-6. 
• Hara, Tameichi (1961). Japanese Destroyer Captain. New York & Toronto: Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-27894-1. 
• Henebry, John P. (2002). The Grim Reapers at Work in the Pacific Theater: The Third Attack Group of the U.S. Fifth Air Force. Pictorial Histories Publishing Company. ISBN 1-57510-093-2. 
• McAulay, Lex (1987). Into the Dragon's Jaws/the Fifth Air Force over Rabaul, 1943. Champlin Fighter Museum Pr. ISBN 0-912173-13-0. 
• McGee, William L. (2002). The Solomons Campaigns, 1942-1943: From Guadalcanal to Bougainville--Pacific War Turning Point, Volume 2 (Amphibious Operations in the South Pacific in WWII). BMC Publications. ISBN 0-9701678-7-3. 
• Morison, Samuel Eliot (1958). Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, vol. 6 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Castle Books. ISBN 0-7858-1307-1. 
• Sakaida, Henry (1996). The Siege of Rabaul. St. Paul, MN, USA: Phalanx. ISBN 1-883809-09-6. 

Sejarah resmi

Australia

• The New Guinea Offensives (Army)
• Royal Australian Navy, 1942–1945
• Air War Against Japan, 1943–1945 (RAAF)

Selandia Baru

• The Pacific

Amerika Serikat

• Miller, John, Jr. (1959). "CARTWHEEL: The Reduction of Rabaul". United States Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific. Office of the Chief of Military History, U.S. Department of the Army. hlm. 418. Diakses tanggal 2006-10-20. 
• Shaw, Henry I.; Douglas T. Kane (1963). "Volume II: Isolation of Rabaul". History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II. Diakses tanggal 2006-10-18. 
• Craven, Wesley Frank; James Lea Cate. "Vol. IV, The Pacific: Guadalcanal to Saipan, August 1942 to July 1944". The Army Air Forces in World War II. U.S. Office of Air Force History. Diakses tanggal 2006-10-20. 

Pranala luar

• The History Channel, June 30 — 1943 Operation Cartwheel is launched (2005)
• David Horner, "Strategy and Command in Australia’s New Guinea Campaigns" (2004)
• An Animated History of Operation Cartwheel (2006)
• "Encyclopædia Britannica Article: The encirclement of Rabaul". Diakses tanggal 2006-05-16.  Brief synopsis of Allied campaign to isolate Rabaul.
• "Rabaul and World War II". Diakses tanggal 2006-05-16.  Brief account of Japanese occupation of Rabaul and subsequent war crimes trials of many of the Japanese troops who had been stationed there.
• Mersky, Peter B. (1993). "Time of the Aces: Marine Pilots in the Solomons, 1942-1944". Marines in World War II Commemorative Series. History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps. Diakses tanggal 2006-10-20.  Account of U.S. Marine involvement in air war over Solomon Islands and Rabaul.
• "World War II Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient Major Gregory 'Pappy' Boyington". Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2006-05-09. Diakses tanggal 2006-05-16.  Information on "Pappy" Boyington
• "Title: THE ASSAULT ON RABAUL. Operations by the Royal New Zealand Air Force December 1943 — May 1944". Diakses tanggal 2006-05-30.