What the records say
- When
- 25 Nov 1943
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 6.30° S, 147.00° E
- Description
- 1943 battle
- War
- World War II
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Battle of Cape St. George
1943 naval battle in the Pacific
The Battle of Cape St. George was a naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II fought on 25 November 1943, between Cape St. George, New Ireland, and Buka Island. It was the last engagement of surface ships in the Solomon Islands campaign.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “WWII: Americans and Japanese fight the naval Battle of Cape St. George, between Buka and New Ireland”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “destruction de trois destroyers japonais à la bataille du cap Saint-George”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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