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| Author: | weiser [ Tue Mar 04, 2014 11:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Real Solomon Islands stuff |
Plenty of examples of using what you have - not what the line looks like: Solomon Island Hopping between Japanese and Allied Forces http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=8 Airfield in enemy lines: http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-C-NSol/ Treasury Islands Landings I Marine Amphibious Corps 27 October 1943 The objectives assigned on Bougainville were to seize a substantial beachhead and build airstrips. Then American planes could assure final neutralization of the Japanese airfields at Kahili, Buka, and Bonis airfields at the north and south ends of Bougainville. (By 31 October, American planes had initially rendered the Japanese fields inoperable.) After that would come a massive increase in air operations against Rabaul. Facing the invading Marines was a formidable enemy force dispersed on the island. At Buin, for instance, there were 21,800 Japanese. Responsible for the defense was an old adversary, Lieutenant General Haruyoshi Hyakutake, commander of the Seventeenth Army, and the man the Marines had defeated at Guadalcanal. His main force was the 6th Division. Working with the ground U.S. forces were the aviators of Air Solomons: New Zealand fighters, Army Air Force bombers, and the 1st and 2d Marine Aircraft Wings. As early as 15 August fighter planes from VMF-214 (the famous Black Sheep squadron) had strafed the Kahili airfield at the southern end of Bougainville. Now, in October, there were repeated strikes against the Japanese planes at other Bougainville airfields. |
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