Operation Cartwheel (1943 – 1944) was a major military operation for the Allies in the Pacific theatre of World War II. Cartwheel was an operation aimed...

Look up cartwheel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cartwheel or Cartwheels may refer to: The wheel of a cart Cartwheel (gymnastics), an acrobatic maneuver...

II between Allied forces and the Empire of Japan. It was part of Operation Cartwheel, the Allied strategy in the South Pacific to isolate the Japanese...

also diverted attention from Lae, which was a major objective of Operation Cartwheel, the Allied grand strategy for the South Pacific. It was decided...

of Japan, named after the island of Bougainville. It was part of Operation Cartwheel, the Allied grand strategy in the South Pacific. The campaign took...

Isolation of Rabaul, p. 194. Miller, Cartwheel: The Reduction of Rabaul, pp. 236–237. Bradsher, Greg (15 August 2016). "Operation Blissful". Prologue Magazine...

Allied offensive in the Pacific Theater. MacArthur's Operation Cartwheel, Operation Reckless and Operation Persecution were the first successful Allied practices...

126th Infantry. On 2 January 1944, the 32nd Division took part in Operation Cartwheel, part of MacArthur's "leap-frog" operational plan to take strategic...

Pacific. This campaign marked the end of MacArthur's Operation Cartwheel, which was a multi-theater operation conducted to turn the powerful Japanese base of...

Dracula – 2 May 1945 Operation Zipper South West Pacific Area Battle of Goodenough Island – 22 October 1942 Operation Cartwheel – 1943–1944 – Commanded...

siblings Roosevelt & Cross U.S. Army in World War II, The War in the Pacific – Operation Cartwheel, The Reduction of Rabaul, New Guinea, US Army War College...

Operation Dexterity was a military operation, part of Operation Cartwheel in the South West Pacific Area (SWPA) for the Allies in the Pacific theater...

of the overarching Allied strategy developed under the guise of Operation Cartwheel. The islands were endowed with a deep natural harbour – Blanche Harbour –...

eventually pushed back towards Buna–Gona by early 1943. As part of Operation Cartwheel, throughout 1943–1945, Allied forces later sought to isolate the...

The Hopoi Mission Station is a Lutheran filial station situated in Morobe Province in Papua New Guinea now under the auspice of the Evangelical Lutheran...

another part of Operation Cartwheel. 4: Exiled Polish leader General Władysław Sikorski dies in an air crash in Gibraltar. 5: Operation Citadel (the Battle...

strategy employed in campaigns like Operation Cartwheel necessitated more flexibility to support aircraft operations at rapidly shifting, far-flung island...

early 1944 was dominated by General Douglas MacArthur's Operation Cartwheel, a series of operations directed at isolating and neutralising Rabaul, the main...

G.I.s from the 25th Infantry Division in the jungle of Vella Lavella in the Solomon Islands, during Operation Cartwheel on 13 September 1943...

editor). Botley: Osprey. p. 45. ISBN 1-84176-707-7. Miller, John (1959). Cartwheel: The Reduction of Rabaul. Washington D.C.: Office of the Chief of Military...

battled the Japanese stronghold. After Okinawa, 2/7 was part of the Operation Beleaguer in China where they went to repatriate the Japanese forces there...

Operation (Master of Arts thesis). Louisiana State University. Retrieved 25 February 2009. Miller, John Jr (1959). The War in the Pacific: CARTWHEEL:...

formed part of the wider Operation Cartwheel, the advance towards Rabaul. An early planning name for this operation was Operation Coronet. Preliminary actions...

The Landing on Emirau was the last of the series of operations that made up Operation Cartwheel, General Douglas MacArthur's strategy for the encirclement...

Regiment Independent Mortar battalion 41st Division 238th Infantry Regiment Report of MICHAELMAS Operation, pp. 2-3 Report of MICHAELMAS Operation, p. 15...

Britain campaign of World War II. The battle formed part of the Allied Operation Cartwheel and had the objective of serving as a diversion before a larger landing...

commands of General MacArthur and Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. in Operation Cartwheel had isolated the large Japanese South Pacific base at Rabaul, New...

efforts to advance towards the main Japanese base around Rabaul under Operation Cartwheel. Coming in the wake of Allied successes at Guadalcanal and in the...

flew the SBD Dauntless and participated in Operation Cartwheel, the Battle of Bougainville and operations in and around Rabaul. The squadron was decommissioned...

1943 and 16 January 1944. Codenamed Operation Backhander, the US landing formed part of the wider Operation Cartwheel, the main Allied strategy in the South...