April 26

  • PACIFIC ALLIES LAUNCH OPERATION CARTWHEEL

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 7 minutes

    SWPA HQ, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia • April 26, 1943 By January 1943, as the 6-month campaign for Guadal­canal in the South­west Pacific Solo­mon Islands was winding down (the Japa­nese aban­doned the island on Febru­ary 7), it became clear that the Allies lacked suffi­cient resources to swiftly dis­lodge the Japa­nese from heavily fortified Rabaul, 650 miles/­1,046 kilo­meters to the west….

  • PACIFIC ALLIES LAUNCH CARTWHEEL

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 5 minutes

    SWPA HQ, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia · April 26, 1943 By January 1943, as the six-month campaign for Guadal­canal in the South­west Pacific Solo­mon Islands was winding down (the Japa­nese aban­doned the island on Febru­ary 7), it became clear that the Allies lacked suffi­cient resources to swiftly dis­lodge the Japa­nese from heavily fortified Rabaul, 650 miles to…