What the records say
- When
- 3 Nov 1943
- Kind
- Military operation
- Coordinates
- 6.88° S, 156.62° E
- Description
- WWII American Marines action in the Solomon Islands campaign
Raid on Choiseul
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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- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “raid sur Choiseul dans les Salomon, participation aux combats du futur président des États-Unis John Fitzgerald Kennedy”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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