New Georgia Campaign
Maps and charts[edit]
Pacific map with table of distances from Munda Point.
Map of the Solomon area with New Georgia highlighted.
Map of central and northern Solomons, New Britain and New Ireland, and eastern New Guinea, the area of the Cartwheel operations in World War II.
New Georgia island group. June, 1943.
New Georgia Group - Central Solomons - 1943
1943 map of the central Solomons.
WWII map of the central Solomons.
Allied airfields on Guadalcanal, May, 1943.
Organization of Allied South Pacific area.
Organization of Japanese forces in the Solomon Islands area, June 1943.
Organizational chart for Operation Toenails, the landings on New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 1943.
Allied D-Day org chart.
Capture of Munda Point Airfield at New Georgia - Central Solomons - 1943
The Last Operations on New Georgia - Central Solomons - 1943
Landings in New Georgia - Central Solomons - 1943
Drive toward Munda Point on New Georgia - Central Solomons - 1943
Allied attack on Munda airfield, July, 1943.
Map of the battle of New Georgia, from The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II: Northern Solomons.
Pictures[edit]
General[edit]
Nimitz and Halsey meet to plan Toenails.
Major General Noboru Sasaki , commander of the Japanese Southeast Detached Force, whose brilliant defense of the Central Solomons materially delayed Admiral Halsey's march towards Rabaul
Japanese defenders of the Solomons, pictured at Buin in May 1943. Seated second from left is Admiral Ota, then General Sasaki, and in the center is Admiral Samejima. Immediately behind Sasaki is Major Kamiya. Others in the photograph are Eighth Fleet Staff and Base Force officers
A photograph of Japanese soldiers serving on New Georgia, presumably taken in Japan before their deployment to the South Pacific. Photo was captured by U.S. forces during the battle for the island in 1943.
6th Kure SNLF in Japan in June 1942.
Naval gunfire at night, while an impressive sight, proved relatively ineffectual against the well-entrenched enemy
ABOARD THE TRANSPORT McCawley, Admiral Turner's flagship, 29 June 1943. From left, Brig. Gen. Leonard F, Wing, Rear Adm. Theodore S. Wilkinson, Rear Adm. Richmond Kelly Turner, and Maj. Gen. John H. Hester. Commanders of the Allied New Georgia landings.
REAR ADM. THEODORE S. WILKINSON (left) and Lt. Gen. Millard F. Harmon in the chart room of the transport McCawley.
Col Harry B. Liversedge commanded the 1st Marine Raider Regiment and the XIV Corps Northern Landing Group.
LtCol William J. Scheyer, third from the left, was the 9th Defense Battalion commander.
USS Honolulu (CL-48) firing during the night bombardment of Japanese positions at Vila, on Kolombangara, and Munda, on New Georgia.
Major General J. Lawton Collins, CG, 25th Division, and Major Charles Davis, CO, 3rd Bn, 27th Inf., left, confer on New Georgia. 14 Aug 1943
US Marine 90mm AA gun on Rendova or New Georgia sometime during the campaign.
Marine radar station on New Georgia after the battle.
US Marine Brigadier General Francis P. Mulcahy at his headquarters at Munda Point, 14 August.
US Army soldiers at Piru Plantation on New Georgia write taunting messages on 155mm shells about to be fired by a US Marine 155mm artillery crew at Japanese positions at Viru, Kolombangara in August 1943.
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Viru Harbor[edit]
Org chart of Allied forces involved in the operation.
6th Kure SNLF in Japan in June 1942.
Segi Point airfield, New Georgia, July, 1943.
Map of the battle
SUPPLY-LADEN LCT's landed at Tetemara in Viru Harbor only a few minutes after Marines had cleared the enemy from the area
37mm Antiaircraft gun manned by soldiers of Battery F, 70th Coast Artillery, is one of many such weapons emplaced for the protection of Wickham Anchorage and Viru Harbor.
The Central Solomons campaign was launched by the raiders at Viru Harbor before the landings at Rendova and the Dragons Peninsula. A burial detail renders honors to those Marines who were killed in action.
Rendova[edit]
Allied org chart for Rendova landings.
Allied transport ships head towards Rendova, 29 June, 1943.
U.S. soldiers take cover on Rendova Island as they land during a rainstorm on June 30, 1943.
Japanese air raid on Allied ships off Rendova on June 30.
MEN OF 43D SIGNAL COMPANY WADING ASHORE from LCM's with signal equipment, 30 June 1943.
Human conveyer belts unloaded LCI's of the second and third echelons landing at Rendova. Here one group of "zoot-suited" soldiers passes equipment and supplies from ship to beach. Unloading accomplished in this fashion proved efficacious and rapid.
"Landing Artillery at Rendova Island, Solomons Group,"
The approach to Rendova Harbor as seen from the deck of an LST carrying Marines ashore.
TRUCK TOWING A 155-MM. HOWITZER OVER MUDDY TRAIL, Rendova, 7 July 1943.
Marines and their equipment come ashore on Rendova.
A Marine 9th Defense Battalion 90mm AA gun is taken ashore on Rendova.
Marine AA crew credited with shooting down a Japanese aircraft.
Marine 40mm AA crew guards the anchorage as landing craft unload in the background.
Supplies pile up on the beach during unloading at Rendova.
US troops construct a corduroy road from coconut logs on Rendova.
Marine 155mm Long Tom being towed into position.
Ammo and fuel burns after the Japanese air raid on July 2, 1943.
Medical personnel tend to wounded troops after the July 2 air raid.
Marine 155mm cannons are moved closer to the front.
Marine 90mm AA gun and crew on Rendova.
US Marine 155mm gun supports the Army's drive on nearby New Georgia.
Marine fire direction center on Rendova.
A wounded Marine is attended to after a Japanese air raid on Rendova on 1 August.
Wickham Anchorage[edit]
Org chart of Allied forces involved in the operation.
Landings in New Georgia - Central Solomons - 1943
Map of the battle of New Georgia, from The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II: Northern Solomons.
Map of the battle.
MEN OF 152D FIELD ARTILLERY BATTALION firing a 105-mm. howitzer in support of Colonel Brown's 2d Battalion, 103d infantry.
37mm Antiaircraft gun manned by soldiers of Battery F, 70th Coast Artillery, is one of many such weapons emplaced for the protection of Wickham Anchorage and Viru Harbor.
Enogai and Bairoko[edit]
Map of central and northern Solomons, New Britain and New Ireland, and eastern New Guinea, the area of the Cartwheel operations in World War II.
New Georgia Group - Central Solomons - 1943
1943 map of the central Solomons.
WWII map of the central Solomons.
Approach to Enogai, July, 1943.
Approach to Bairoko in New Georgia - Central Solomons - 1943
Map of attack on Bairoko.
6th Kure SNLF in Japan in June 1942.
Col Harry B. Liversedge commanded the 1st Marine Raider Regiment and the XIV Corps Northern Landing Group.
Dead Japanese machine-gun crew after the Battle of Enogai on July 11, 1943.
Captured Japanese coastal gun at Enogai July 1943.
US Marines cross a creek on the Dragons Peninsula in July, 1943.
Raider 60mm mortar crew in action during the campaign.
US battalion commanders meet to plan the Bairoko assault.
Casualties from the Battle of Bairoko are evacuated by PBY from Enogai.
Marine burial detail.
Munda Drive[edit]
Landings in New Georgia - Central Solomons - 1943
Drive toward Munda Point on New Georgia - Central Solomons - 1943
Not all japanese fought to the death, for a few were taken prisoner. These two were captured by native scouts on Ilangana Peninsula
Casualties lying on stretchers aboard a lighter. Munda Point, New Georgia, SW Pacific. 12 Jul 43
Munda Point Airfield
U.S. Army troops carry hot food forward on New Georgia.
TROOPS OF THE 172D INFANTRY WADING ACROSS A CREEK on the Munda Trail.
Allied aircraft BOMB MUNDA AIRFIELD, EARLY MORNING, 12 July 1943.
JEEP TRAIL FROM ZANANA, built through heavy jungle by 118th Engineer Battalion, 13 July 1943.
Injured troops are evacuated by jeep on New Georgia.
INFANTRYMEN LOADING ON LCP(R)'s for the trip to Laiana, New Georgia, 14 July 1943. Men are from the 3d Battalion of the 103d Infantry, 43d Division.
LCM's APPROACHING LAIANA, NEW GEORGIA, under Japanese artillery fire, 14 July 1943. The Tank Platoon of the 9th Marine Defense Battalion is aboard these landing craft.
Marine AA crew at Zanana Beach.
Marine 90mm AA gun at Zanana Beach.
US Army soldier of the 172nd Infantry Regiment eats chow after 12 days of continuous combat.
Battle of Munda Point[edit]
Map of central and northern Solomons, New Britain and New Ireland, and eastern New Guinea, the area of the Cartwheel operations in World War II.
New Georgia Group - Central Solomons - 1943
1943 map of the central Solomons.
WWII map of the central Solomons.
Allied airfields on Guadalcanal, May, 1943.
Organizational chart for Operation Toenails, the landings on New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 1943.
Capture of Munda Point Airfield at New Georgia - Central Solomons - 1943
The Last Operations on New Georgia - Central Solomons - 1943
Landings in New Georgia - Central Solomons - 1943
Drive toward Munda Point on New Georgia - Central Solomons - 1943
Allied attack on Munda airfield, July, 1943.
Map of the battle of New Georgia, from The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II: Northern Solomons.
Men of the weapons platoon of Company K, 3rd Bn., 27th Infantry, push through the jungle growth along the Zieta Trail, New Georgia, 12 Aug. 1943
Major General J. Lawton Collins, CG, 25th Division, and Major Charles Davis, CO, 3rd Bn, 27th Inf., left, confer on New Georgia. 14 Aug 1943
Munda Point Airfield
Munda Point Airfield
Another view of Munda Point airfield.
U.S. Army troops carry hot food forward on New Georgia.
A U.S. soldier checks a Japanese pillbox on New Georgia.
SOLDIERS OF THE 151st INFANTRY debarking from an LCI, New Georgia, 22 July 1943.
Knocked out Marine tank and Japanese bunker, July 26, 1943.
Marine inspects damage to his tank during the battle.
A Marine tank commander examines an unexploded Japanese magnetic mine attached to his tank on 4 or 5 August 1943.
U.S. Army troops fire flamethrowers at Japanese positions during the battle for Munda on New Georgia, 1943.
LIGHT TANKS M3 OF THE 9TH MARINE DEFENSE BATTALION supporting infantry action near the base of Bibilo Hill. Munda.
MUNDA AIRFIELD IN OPERATION. C-47 transport taking off is evacuating wounded men.
4-TON TRUCK STUCK IN THE MUD on a jeep trail, New Georgia. August, 1943.
37TH DIVISION TROOPS CARRYING WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION forward, 5 August 1943, New Georgia.
Marine 40mm AA gun at Laiana.
Bibolo Hill.
Wrecked Japanese Zero aircraft on the airfield after its capture.
Construction on the airfield after its capture.
US Navy Seebeas clear a Japanese cave for use near the airfield after its capture.
New US facilities constructed at Munda after its capture.
The first fighter at Munda lands on 14 August.
Marine AA crew at Munda after the capture of the airfield.
Japanese twin 25mm gun at Munda.
A dead Japanese soldier and smashed 37mm anti-tank gun after the battle.
US Marine Brigadier General Francis P. Mulcahy at his headquarters at Munda Point, 14 August.
Damage sustained from a Japanese air raid after the airfield's capture.
