Talk:Bougainville counterattack

Article still under development

As a note, I'm developing a much longer version of this article at User:Nick-D/Drafts11. However, as this is taking a lot longer than I expected I've started the article as a stub + references so it's not a red link. Other editors are very welcome to contribute to the development of the article either at User:Nick-D/Drafts11 or here. Nick-D (talk) 10:45, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Update: this has been completed now. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 04:17, 23 July 2016 (UTC)

Some minor things

Hi, I noticed a couple of other things but am not au fait with military jargon so leave to your call. Consistency - time style (eg 5 pm, 6:00 am, 19:30), flamethrowers/flame thrower, counter-attack appears ie with hyphen, Logging Trail/Track. Tautologies - "The 37th Division's fatalities were five officers and 73 enlisted men killed.", "infiltrated into", "withdraw back". At Aftermath, "to the positions they had occupied prior to the" is repeated. At end of Prelude/Preparations, disseminate/d is repeat too closely. The article is mostly based on the perimeter so the caption on the second map would be helpful to mention Torokina perimeter in blue? Are there any categories for the Fijians? Good luck with the review and thanks for the interesting read. JennyOz (talk) 08:08, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

G'day, Jenny, thanks for these comments. I think I've gotten these all now. These are my changes: [1] Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 12:08, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

CE

Tidied a few biblio details, added coords, tried a loc map and failed, shortened headers in battle section, rev as desired. Keith-264 (talk) 09:34, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

New Zealand

RNZAF squadrons and three Airfield Defence companies were based on Bougainville from January 1944. Recent Australian books are listed but are their any modern US references? Anthony Staunton (talk) 10:36, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

Good catch - thanks (for some reason I thought that the RNZAF arrived on Bougainville after the attack). I've just added some material on the NZ role in the battle. I haven't been able to find recent American works covering this topic unfortunately. The few recent works on this theatre like Ian W. Toll's The Conquering Tide cover the initial invasion, but not this counter-offensive, and the weight of scholarship (such as it is) is on MacArthur's operations in New Guinea. Nick-D (talk) 22:49, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Nick. Anthony Staunton (talk) 16:02, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Hill 206

The last part on Hill 260 has numerous references to Hill 206. Presumably these are typos.--Grahame (talk) 01:31, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

I've been reading this section too, I don't think it's a typo; the feature has two summits, referred to in the text as the North Knob and the South Knob. One is also called Hill 260, the other is called Hill 206, but nowhere is properly explained which is which and all four names are used in the text seemingly at random without clear explanation what the relation is between the names. Definitely could use some clarification. DragonFury (talk) 08:26, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

From checking the source, this should have been Hill 260 - fixed Nick-D (talk) 10:07, 16 March 2023 (UTC)