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    My Bougainville is the anthem of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. The anthem was officially adopted in 2018. It is sung to the...
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    Bougainville (/ˈboʊɡənvɪl/ BOH-gən-vil; Tok Pisin: Bogenvil), officially the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (Tok Pisin: Otonomos Region bilong Bogenvil)...
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    McClelland) while digging a latrine pit. "My Bougainville", the anthem of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, is sung to the tune of "The Song of Australia"[citation...
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    The South Bougainville or East Bougainville languages are a small language family spoken on the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. They were classified...
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  • returned to Bougainville and holed up with Francis Ona, the secessionist leader. While Bougainville is administered by the Autonomous Bougainville Government...
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  • of Bougainville from Papua New Guinea, beginning in the early 1970s. He was one of the designers of the flag of Bougainville. During the Bougainville Civil...
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    collection of Melanesian islands that also includes the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (currently a part of Papua New Guinea), but excludes the Santa Cruz Islands...
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    transport. A key part of her journey was as a member of Louis Antoine de Bougainville's expedition on the ships La Boudeuse and Étoile in 1766–1769. Jeanne...
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    major Japanese base of Rabaul. In response to the Allied invasion of Bougainville, the Japanese had brought a strong cruiser force down to Rabaul from...
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    James Tanis (category Presidents of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville)
    the Bougainville People's Congress. Tanis was raised in Panam Village in Lamane, on the border of South and Central Bougainville. The Bougainville independence...
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    Major-General François de Gaston, Chevalier de Lévis, Colonel Louis Antoine de Bougainville, and Lieutenant-Colonel de Sennezergue, distributed some 12,000 troops...
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    time Canonical +12:00 +13:00 NZST NZDT australasia PG Pacific/Bougainville Bougainville Canonical +11:00 +11:00 +11 australasia NZ Pacific/Chatham Chatham...
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    against the American forces in the Battle of Driniumor River and the Bougainville counterattack. Containing these Japanese forces tied up six American...
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    recruit training, volunteered to become a Paramarine. He fought in the Bougainville and Iwo Jima campaigns in the Pacific War. Hayes was generally known...
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    Green Berets). Joseph P. Cleland, for rescuing a drowning aviator off Bougainville Island in 1943. Wayne A. Downing, was a US Army retired four-star General...
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    this country. Neither will there be any promotion of gays and lesbians under my watch. People's sexual preferences are within their individual rights of choice...
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    Americal Division (category Mỹ Lai massacre)
    25 December 1943 to 12 January 1944 the Americal Division landed on Bougainville, relieving the 3rd Marine Division. They were given the task (alongside...
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    Malouines, given to the islands by French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville. Bougainville, who founded the archipelago's first settlement, named the islands...
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    Carteret Islands (category Geography of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville)
    Islands/Atoll) are Papua New Guinea islands located 86 km (53 mi) north-east of Bougainville in the South Pacific. The atoll has a scattering of low-lying islands...
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    his dismissal, Potts went on to command the 23rd Brigade during the Bougainville campaign where he earned a reputation for setting high standards. He...
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    and Herzegovina, the Sinai, Angola, Cambodia, the Iran–Iraq border, Bougainville, East Timor, and the Solomon Islands. New Zealand has an advanced market...
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    desperate emergency that confronted me in my entire term as ComSoPac." Following the successful Bougainville operation, he then isolated and neutralized...
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    maintain control of his vessel and the iron on board.: 39–47  Louis de Bougainville, a French nobleman, sailor and soldier, left France on his circumnavigation...
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    lieutenant. Nixon commanded the SCAT forward detachments at Vella Lavella, Bougainville, and finally at Nissan Island. His unit prepared manifests and flight...
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    "We will bury you" (Russian: «Мы вас похороним!», romanized: "My vas pokhoronim!") is a phrase that was used by Soviet First (formerly General) Secretary...
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    Offensives were undertaken to reduce the Japanese forces remaining in Bougainville, New Guinea and the Philippines. In April 1945, American forces landed...
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    Soléal Le Lyrial Ponant Explorers-class Le Lapérouse Le Champlain Le Bougainville Le Dumont-d'Urville Le Bellot Le Jacques Cartier Paul Gauguin Cruises...
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    operations in Papua New Guinea, which they allege were one catalyst of the Bougainville separatist crisis. There have also been corruption concerns: In July...
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     Pakistan: Used by the Pakistan Army.  Panama  Papua New Guinea  Bougainville: Used by Bougainville Revolutionary Army. Captured from Papua New Guinea Defence...
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    shipboard-staging. 1 November 1943 saw the division land as part of the Battle of Bougainville and fight on the island until their last unit to arrive, the 21st Marine...
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