Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier

Campaigns in the Central & Northern Solomons and Bismarck Archipelago:
New Georgia, Bougainville, New Britain, etc.

Related: Army, Navy, and Marine Corps Doctrine for amphibious operations.

(Links to additional resources)

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Contents

General

• A Pocket Guide to New Guinea and the Solomons

• Building the Navy's Bases in World War II: Chapter 25-- Campaign in the Solomons
• Building the Navy's Bases in World War II: Chapter 26-- Bases in the Southwest Pacific

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New Georgia, Vella Lavella:

• UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II--WAR IN THE PACIFIC
  CARTWHEEL: The Reduction of Rabaul
• U.S. ARMY CAMPAIGNS OF WORLD WAR II
  Northern Solomons

• U.S. MARINE CORPS HISTORICAL MONOGRAPH
  Marines in the Central Solomons
• HISTORY OF US MARINE CORPS OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II
  Volume II: Isolation of Rabaul
• MARINES IN WORLD WAR II COMMEMORATIVE HISTORIES
  Up the Slot: Marines in the Central Solomons
  Time of the Aces: Marine Pilots in the Solomons, 1942-1944

• The Amphibians Came to Conquer, Chapters XII-XV
• Kolombangara and Vella Lavella 6 August--7 October 1943 (ONI Combat Narrative)
• Action Report, Destroyer Division Twelve: Sweep of Vella Gulf, 9-10 August 1943

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Bougainville:

• UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II--WAR IN THE PACIFIC
  CARTWHEEL: The Reduction of Rabaul
• U.S. ARMY CAMPAIGNS OF WORLD WAR II
  Northern Solomons

• U.S. MARINE CORPS HISTORICAL MONOGRAPH
  Bougainville and the Northern Solomons
• HISTORY OF US MARINE CORPS OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II
  Volume II: Isolation of Rabaul
• MARINES IN WORLD WAR II COMMEMORATIVE HISTORIES
  Top of the Ladder: Marine Operations in the Northern Solomons
  Time of the Aces: Marine Pilots in the Solomons, 1942-1944

• THE ARMY AIR FORCES IN WORLD WAR II, Vol. IV
  
  The Pacific: Guadalcanal to Saipan, August 1942 to July 1944
  Chapter 8: Bougainville

• "Bougainville: The Amphibious Assault Enters Maturity" [Naval War College Review, Winter 1997:104-21
• Battle for Bougainville: Hell on Hill 700
• Journal of Pfc Sabino L. Goitia, MC, 37th Division [Bougainville, Luzon]

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New Britain

• UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II SERIES--WAR IN THE PACIFIC
  CARTWHEEL: The Reduction of Rabaul
• U.S. ARMY CAMPAIGNS OF WORLD WAr II
  Bismarcks

• U.S. MARINE CORPS HISTORICAL MONOGRAPH
  The Campaign on New Britain
• HISTORY OF US MARINE CORPS OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II
  Volume II: Isolation of Rabaul
• MARINES IN WORLD WAR II COMMEMORATIVE HISTORIES
  Cape Gloucester: The Green Inferno
  Time of the Aces: Marine Pilots in the Solomons, 1942-1944

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Additional Resources
World War II DVDs from The History Channel Marines in Action contains the work of Kerr Eby and documents the Marine landing at Tarawa, Bougainville and New Britain from an point of view of an eyewitness to these dramatic battles. Death of Yamamoto April 18, 1943 Bougainville: Nov. 1943

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