Raid on Choiseul

Wann

3. Nov. 1943

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Militäroperation

Koordinaten

6.88° S, 156.62° E

Description

WWII American Marines action in the Solomon Islands campaign

World War II US Marines action in the Solomon Islands campaign

The Raid on Choiseul was a small unit engagement that occurred from 28 October to 3 November 1943, during the Solomon Islands campaign of the Pacific War. The raid was launched to divert the Japanese from the Allied landings at Cape Torokina on Bougainville Island.

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