Landings at Cape Torokina
- Landings at Cape Torokina
Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Landings at Cape Torokina
partof=the Pacific Theater of World War II
caption=1st Battalion 3rd Marines engaged during the landing at Cape Torokina.
date=November 1, 1943
place=Bougainville in the South Pacific
result=Allied victory
combatant1=United States
combatant2=Empire of Japan
commander1=Roy Geiger
Theodore S. Wilkinson
commander2=Harukichi Hyakutake
Masatane Kanda
strength1=
strength2=
casualties1=
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The Landings at Cape Torokina, were the beginning of the Bougainville campaign in World War II, and occurred on 1943-11-01 on Bougainville Island in the South Pacific between the Empire of Japan and Allied forces.
References
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*cite web | url=http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-M-NSols/index.html | title="Bougainville and the Northern Solomons" | author=Major John M. Rentz, USMCR | publisher=Historical Branch, Headquarters, United States Marine Corps | year=1946 | accessdate = 2007-01-24
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