The Landings at Cape Torokina (1–3 November 1943), also known as Operation Cherryblossom, took place at the beginning of the Bougainville campaign in...

consolidate after landing and give them enough time to establish a strong perimeter. The preparation for landings at Cape Torokina became known as Operation...

battle fought at night in Empress Augusta Bay near Bougainville Island. The naval battle was a result of Allied landings at Cape Torokina with the bay...

The raid was launched to divert the Japanese from the Allied landings at Cape Torokina on Bougainville Island. United States Marines from the 2nd Parachute...

Bougainville campaign of the Pacific War in the days following the US landings at Cape Torokina earlier in the month. The fighting took place inland from the...

Cape Torokina is a promontory at the north end of Empress Augusta Bay, along the central part of the western coast of Bougainville, in Papua New Guinea...

from the 3rd Marine Division around Cape Torokina on Bougainville Island on 1 November 1943. Judging the landings a ruse, and that the real Allied objective...

campaign and New Georgia campaign, he was fatally wounded in the Landings at Cape Torokina, Bougainville on 1 November 1943, as he led his Marine Raider...

October 1943 Bougainville campaign, November 1943 – August 1945 Landings at Cape Torokina (Operation Cherryblossom), 1–3 November 1943 Battle of Empress...

on 2 November for her eighth war patrol, coordinated with the landings at Cape Torokina. Patrolling between the Carolines and New Ireland, she sank the...