Up the Solomons Ladder: Bougainville

Another in the Crusade in the Pacific series.

This section deals with some planning meetings that were held. The sound track seems damaged a little, though, so some key words are missing.

A Hollywood personality performs for the troops.

Natives dance for the “big brass.”

MacArthur, again.

P-38s took photos of the island preparatory to the invasion.

The plane-mounted camera that was used for the photos.

Once targets were identified on the photos, bombers went after them.

The 3rd Marine Division boards ships for the invasion.

Two diversionary attacks are launched while the main assault group moves towards Bougainville.

The beachhead force prepares for any enemy counter-attack by stringing barbed wire and making other preparations.

Flamethrowers were used against dug-in Japanese positions.

A Japanese fleet moves south towards Bougainville.

This led to the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay. The Japanese fleet was stopped.

A person who fought in a specific part of the battle narrates what his group had to go through.

One of the Nisei interpreters who tried to get Japanese troops to surrender.

Another airstrip gets constructed.

Army nurses are brought to the island.

The video then talks about the food that the men ate.

Japanese POWs being treated rather well.

The video then includes part of an actual interrogation of a Japanese POW.

American troops listen to another broadcast by Tokyo Rose.

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