- Landings on Rendova
Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Landings on Rendova
caption= US Army soldiers come ashore onRendova Island on June 30, 1943
partof=the Pacific Theater ofWorld War II
date=June 30, 1943
place=New Georgia ,Solomon Islands
result=US victory
combatant1= flagicon|USA|1912United States
combatant2= flagicon|Japan|altEmpire of Japan
commander1=Richmond K. Turner John H. Hester Theodore S. Wilkinson Leonard F. Wing
commander2=Minoru Sasaki Genjiro Hirata
strength1=6,000 [Miller, p. 88.]
strength2=120 [Miller, p. 88.]
casualties1=4 killed [Miller, p. 88.]
casualties2=50–60 killed [Miller, p. 88.] |The Landings on Rendova was a military amphibious assault on
Rendova Island in theSolomon Islands on June 30, 1943 byUnited States Army andUnited States Navy forces during the New Georgia Campaign of thePacific War . In the assault, US military forces overwhelmed a small Japanese military garrison and secured the island. The US occupied the island to use it as a staging and artillery base to support an offensive against Japanese forces guarding an airfield at Munda Point on nearbyNew Georgia .Notes
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