JUNE
30
General MacArthur begins offensive with landings in New Guinea
JULY
2
U.S. forces land on New Georgia
6
First Naval Battle of Kula Gulf; U.S. Naval Task Force bombards Kiska
for the first time
13
Second Naval Battle of Kula Gulf
22
Kiska subjected to heavy naval and air attacks
28
Japanese secretly evacuate Kiska
AUGUST
2
JFK's PT-109 sunk
5
U.S. forces capture New Georgia's Munda Airfield
6
Naval Battle of Vella Bay
23
Japanese bomb Chungking, China, for first time since 1941
27
U.S. lands on Arundel Island, Solomons
SEPTEMBER
4
Australians land near Lae
5
American paratroopers are dropped at Nadzab
11
Salamaua regained ???? Bay
15
Allies land unopposed on Kiska
16
Lae captured
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OCTOBER
5-6
Aircraft from U.S. aircraft carriers bomb Wake Island
15
From India, Chinese advance into Burma
NOVEMBER
1
U.S. forces land on Bougainville, at Empress Augusta Bay
2
Naval Battle of Empress Augusta Bay
5
First U.S. aircraft carrier air attack on Rabaul
11
Second raid by planes from U.S. aircraft carriers on Rabaul
20-24
U.S. landings on Tarawa and Makin
23
Tarawa and Makin secured
26
Naval Battle off Cape St. George
DECEMBER
5
Japanese aircraft raid Calcutta, India
7
U.S. Marines holding the Empress Augusta Bay perimeter are reinforced
26
U.S. Marines land at Cape Gloucester, New Britain
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