Kampanye Bougainville

Kampanye Bougainville (Operasi Cherry Blossom) adalah bagian pertempuran dari Kampanye Pasifik pada Perang dunia kedua antara Sekutu dan Kekaisaran Jepang. ini bagian dari Operasi Cartwheel, Grand strategi Sekutu di Pasifik Selatan. Kampanye ini berada di Northern Solomons dalam dua tahap: Tahap pertama, dimana pasukan Amerika invasi dan merebut Parimeter di sekitar pantai, mulai November 1943 sampai November 1944; Tahap kedua, dimana Pasukan persmakmuran Inggris menyerang daerah penting dan strategis,  tersembunyi tetapi masih dikuasai oleh Jepang, mulai November 1944 sampai Augustus 1945, sampai akhirnya Jepang menyerah.

Kampanye Bougainville (1943–45)
Bagian dari Perang Pasifik dari Perang Dunia II
Prajurit Tentara Amerika memburu infiltrasi Jepang di Bougainville pada Maret 1944.
Tanggal 1 November 1943 – 21 Augustus 1945 Lokasi 6°8′S 155°18′E Bougainville, Wilayah New Guinea (geographically part of the Solomon Islands) Hasil Kemenangan Sekutu
Pihak terlibat
United States Australia New Zealand Colony of Fiji	Empire of Japan
Tokoh dan pemimpin
Douglas MacArthur William F. Halsey Theodore S.        Wilkinson Alexander A.        Vandegrift R. A. Row Allen H. Turnage Robert S. Beightler Roy S. Geiger Oscar W. Griswold H. E. Barrowclough Thomas Blamey Stanley Savige	Hitoshi Imamura Harukichi Hyakutake Mineichi Koga Jinichi Kusaka Tomoshige        Samejima Sentaro Omori Kiyoto Kagawa † Masatane Kanda
Kekuatan
144,000 American troops 30,000 Australian troops 728 aircraft	45,000–65,000 troops 154 aircraft
Korban
USA: 727 dead Australia: 516 dead	18,500–21,500 dead

Penaklukan Jepang

Peta lokasi kunci pertempuran di Bougainville pada tahun 1944–1945

Rencana Sekutu

Pilihan Bougainville

Laksamana William F. Halsey

Rear Adm. T.S. Wilkinson

Mayjen A.A. Vandegrift

Pendaratan di Cape Torokina

Hari pertama: 1–2 November 1943

Daerah pendaratan dekat Teluk Torokina

Reaksi Jepang

Laksamana Sentaro Omori

November 1943: Penguasaan Pantai

Awal November

Pendaratan craft circling dari Teluk Torokina

Mayjen Roy S. Geiger

Akhir November

Senjata Antiaircraft di Teluk Torokina

Mayjen Oscar W. Griswold

Januari–Februari 1944: 

penguasaan udara di Rabaul

Serangan udara di Pelabuhan Simpson

Pengiriman khusus

Maret 1944: Serangan balik Jepang

Persiapan

Letjen Haruyochi Hyakutake

19 Maret 1944: Bukit 260 hancur oleh Divisi arteleri Amerika

Setelah pertempuran

U.S. Marine Raiders berkumpul di depan markas Jepang di Teluk Torokina, Bougainville

Group pasukan Australia dari 42nd Batalyon patroli di Bougainville, Januari 1945

Bagian Utara

Tim Medis Fijian menangani transfusi plasma secara darurat selama pertempuran di Bougainville.

Bagian selatan

5 April 1945: Penglihatan dari posisi terdepan pasukan Australia di Slater's Knoll, Bougainville; Prajurit berlindung dengan memegang sebuah Owen submachinegun.

Akhir pertempuran

8 September 1945: Jenderal Masatane Kanda menyerah di Bougainville.

Catatan

Catatan kaki

Kutipan

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