Solomon Islands campaign

Solomon Islands campaign
Part of the Pacific Theater of World War II
Map of the Solomon Islands showing the Allied advance during 1943 and key air and naval bases.
Date January 1942 – 21 August 1945 Location British Solomon Islands/Territory of New Guinea, South Pacific Result Allied victory
Belligerents
United States  Australia  New Zealand  United Kingdom Colony of Fiji  Tonga British Solomon Islands	Empire of Japan
Commanders and leaders
Chester Nimitz Douglas MacArthur Robert Ghormley William Halsey, Jr. William Sydney Marchant Alexander Patch Frank Jack Fletcher Richmond K. Turner Eric Feldt Roy Geiger Theodore S. Wilkinson Oscar Griswold Stanley Savige	Isoroku Yamamoto † Chūichi Nagumo Shigeyoshi Inoue Nishizo Tsukahara Takeo Kurita Kiyohide Shima Jinichi Kusaka Shōji Nishimura Gunichi Mikawa Raizo Tanaka Hitoshi Imamura Harukichi Hyakutake Minoru Sasaki
Casualties and losses
10,600 killed 40+ ships sunk, 800 aircraft destroyed	86,000 killed 50+ ships sunk, 1,500 aircraft destroyed

 United States
 Australia
 New Zealand
 United Kingdom

The Solomon Islands campaign was a major campaign of the Pacific War of World War II. The campaign began with Japanese landings and occupation of several areas in the British Solomon Islands and Bougainville, in the Territory of New Guinea, during the first six months of 1942. The Japanese occupied these locations and began the construction of several naval and air bases with the goals of protecting the flank of the Japanese offensive in New Guinea, establishing a security barrier for the major Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain, and providing bases for interdicting supply lines between the Allied powers of the United States and Australia and New Zealand.

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