Landings at Cape Torokina

Landings at Cape Torokina
Part of the Pacific Theater of World War II
1st Battalion, 3rd Marines engaged during the landing at Cape Torokina.
Date November 1943 Location Bougainville, Solomon Islands Result Allied victory
Belligerents
United States	Japan
Commanders and leaders
William F. Halsey Theodore S. Wilkinson Alexander A. Vandegrift Allen H. Turnage Lawrence F. Reifsnider Robert S. Beightler	Hitoshi Imamura Harukichi Hyakutake
Strength
14,000 Marines	2,000 soldiers 1 x 75mm field gun
Casualties and losses
78 killed 104 wounded	192 killed

The Landings at Cape Torokina were the beginning of the Bougainville campaign in World War II, between the military forces of the Empire of Japan and the Allied powers. The amphibious landings by the United States Marine Corps and the United States Army during the month of November 1943 on Bougainville Island in the Solomon Islands of the South Pacific.

The Japanese forces defending Bougainville were part of the General Harukichi Hyakutake 17th Army. This formation reported to the Eighth Area Army under General Hitoshi Imamura at Rabaul, New Britain. The main concentrations of Japanese troops were as follows:

The Bougainville invasion was the ultimate responsibility of Admiral William F. Halsey, commander U.S. Third Fleet, at his headquarters at Nouméa, New Caledonia. The landings were under the personal direction of Rear Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson, commander Third Fleet Amphibious Forces, aboard his flagship attack transport George Clymer. Also aboard was Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift, USMC, commander I Marine Amphibious Corps.

...
Wikipedia