Use dmy dates date August 2011 refimprove date February 2010 Image Solomon Isles.jpg right thumb 300px The Nggela Islands from the air. Photo by Jim Lounsbury Image NggelaSolomons.png thumb 250px Map of the Florida Islands The Nggela Islands , also known as the Florida Islands , are a small island group in the Central Province Solomon Islands Central Province of the Solomon Islands , a sovereign state state in the southwest Pacific Ocean . ref http www.visitsolomons.com.sb index.php?option com content&view article&id 317 central province general&catid 22 central province&Itemid 159 Solomon Islands Tourism ref The chain is composed of the main island, Nggela Sule , as well as a number of smaller islands, including Tulagi , Gavutu and Tanambogo . The name Florida Island is sometimes also used to refer to Nggela Sule. History The Nggela Islands group lies immediately north of the more famous island of Guadalcanal , the scene of the Guadalcanal Campaign Battle of Guadalcanal during World War II however, Nggela Sule itself was garrisoned by the Empire of Japan Japanese in April 1942 in connection with their efforts to establish a seaplane base on neighboring Gavutu. On 7 August of the same year, the United States 1st Battalion 2nd Marines 1st Battalion , 2nd Marine Regiment United States 2nd Marine Regiment landed on the island to provide cover for the assault on the neighboring Tulagi islet. Florida Island would never become as famous as Guadalcanal, although it did serve as a small, very secondary base of operations for the US & Australian war effort in the Pacific for the duration of the war. Following the American liberation of the island from the Japanese, it became the site of a US seaplane base. The island subsequently served as a watering point for the United States Navy US Navy , diverting water from an underground source on the island. Fauna The possibly extinct Florida Naked tailed Rat was endemic to the Nggela Islands. Other animals include Solomon s Naked ba ... more details
Use British English date August 2011 Use dmy dates date August 2011 Maasina Ruru was an emancipation movement for self government and self determination during and after World War II , 1945 1950, credited with creating the movement towards independence for the Solomon Islands . The name is from the Are are language meaning the Rule of relationship of siblings together and is often corrupted to Marching Rule , Marxist Rule , or Rule of Brotherhood . Foundation and influences The movement was created after Nori Nono oohimae , Aliki Nono oohimae and Jonathan Fiifii i worked together in the Solomon Islands Labour Corps during World War II. One of the influences is said to have been the African American soldiers whose humane treatment of the fellow workers was markedly different from the plantation owners. They spread a message of independence amongst the Malaita n soldiers who began a campaign of non compliance and civil disobedience . They were also influenced by other revolutionary or anti government movements, progressive missionaries such as Rev. Richard Fallowes and apocalyptic movement s such as that of the priest Noto i . During 1939 in Uogwari and Atobala he had been a prophet of the ancestor La aka and channelled that Tulagi would be destroyed and the government would be thrown into the sea. His followers were arrested by the government but in 1946, the capital moved from Tulagi to Honiara . Noto i joined the Maasina Ruru movement as did people from all over the islands. Operation DeLouse and Operation Jericho In 1947, the British government launched Operation De Louse to arrest the leaders of the movement. The nine main chiefs or Alaha were also arrested and charged under the Sedition Act for organising secret meetings. This despite the fact that Maasina Ruru meetings were mass meetings of thousands of people at a time. They were mostly sentenced, including Fifi i, Nonoohimae and Aliki, to six and a half years hard labour. While the leaders were in jail the ca ... more details
Use dmy dates date May 2011 Unreferenced date November 2006 Task Force 88 TF88 was the Escort aircraft carrier escort carrier force, commanded by Rear Admiral T H Troubridge, that supported Operation Dragoon , the allied invasion of southern France. It was activated in August 1944, and dispersed on 29 August when the carrier force departed to operate in the Aegean. The TF88 was a mixed force of Royal Navy and US Navy ships that was stationed off Provence . Its tasks were to achieve aerial superiority over the landing beaches, provide air support for the armies by suppressing enemy resistance and movement, destroying military infrastructure and artillery spotting for the naval bombardment. As discussed at the task force page, the United States Navy system means that the same TF number can be reused for an entirely different operation years later TF 88 was the designation later chosen for Operation Argus , an ocean based US nuclear test series in the late 1950s. Task Force 88 order of battle class wikitable Task Group 88.1 Task Group 88.2 VOC 01 in Corsica HMS Pursuer D73 HMS Pursuer 881 Naval Air Squadron F4F Wildcat USS Tulagi CVE 72 USS Tulagi VOF 01 F6F Hellcat 12 F6F Hellcat nightfighter Ligne grise HMS Searcher D40 HMS Searcher 882 Naval Air Squadron F4F Wildcat USS Kasaan Bay CVE 69 USS Kasaan Bay VF 74 F6F Hellcat HMS Attacker D02 HMS Attacker 879 Naval Air Squadron Supermarine Seafire Seafire HMS Hunter D80 HMS Hunter 807 Naval Air Squadron Supermarine Seafire Seafire Ligne grise HMS Emperor D98 HMS Emperor 800 Naval Air Squadron F6F Hellcat HMS Stalker D91 HMS Stalker 809 Naval Air Squadron Supermarine Seafire Seafire HMS Khedive D62 HMS Khedive 899 Naval Air Squadron Supermarine Seafire Seafire HMS Colombo D89 HMS Colombo Ligne grise HMS Delhi I74 HMS Delhi HMS Caledon D53 HMS Caledon HMS Royalist 89 HMS Royalist flagship 6 US destroyer s Ligne grise 5 British destroyer s 1 Greek destroyer Ligne grise Category United States Navy task forces Category Operati ... more details
United States 1st Marine Division on Guadalcanal and Tulagi . Supplying Guadalcanal and Tulagi with fuel ... 3, the tender busied herself escorting resupply convoys between the New Hebrides and Tulagi ... , where Jamestown entrusted them to two fast minesweepers for the final passage to Tulagi and resumed .... Finally she reported to Tulagi 22 October and there, in the center of the bitter struggle ... for taking and holding strongly defended Japanese positions on Tulagi , Gavutu , Tanambogo , Florida ... departed Tulagi 18 February 1943 on one of countless trips made during the following year from that port ... groups. After 12 months of this valuable service, Jamestown departed Tulagi 9 February 1944 for a well ... more details
from the 14th Encampment Corps established radio stations on Tulagi, Gavutu and at RXI. Local labor ..., Allied forces, predominantly United States Marines, landed on the islands of Guadalcanal, Tulagi ... also intended to use Guadalcanal and Tulagi as bases to support a campaign to eventually capture ... Japanese defenders and captured Tulagi and Florida, as well as the RXI airfield which was built ... more details
23, Squadron 8. She sailed with the division on the 27th and reached her base at Tulagi , Solomon ... off Guadalcanal . Attacked at Tulagi On 7 April the Japan ese raided the Guadalcanal Tulagi area ... Niagara , with Motor Torpedo Boat Division 23, departed Tulagi headed towards New Guinea . The following ... down in less than a minute. The motor torpedo boats landed her crew at Tulagi early the next ... more details
detachment at Tulagi in May 1942. All was quiet during the month of June. On July 9, the unit ... unconfirmed victories. During the Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu Tanambogo on August 7, aircraft from the aircraft carrier USS Wasp CV 7 dive bombed Japanese installations on Tulagi, Gavutu , Tanambogo , and Florida ... of the unit which had not been deployed to Tulagi returned to Japan and were re equipped ... more details
and Navy General Staffs On 3 May, the Light Task Force occupied the port of Tulagi , near Guadalcanal ... Inoue was responsible of Operation Mo actions this if force disposable for these plan The Tulagi ... of Operation Mo The Tulagi assault force Invasion of Tulagi May 1942 began their landings on Tulagi ... for Port Moresby . This same day US aircraft from Yorktown attacked the Tulagi assault force, inflicting heavy damage, but were unsuccessful in preventing the occupation of Tulagi, Gavutu, and Tanambogo ... more details
La aka is a powerful ancestress and one of the most widely propitiated of spirits among the eastern Kwaio on Malaita , Solomon Islands . She is seen as both a protective figure who exemplifies maternal virtues and the productive powers of women and as a warrior whose deeds rivalled those of the ancient Kwaio strongmen who, as ancestral spirits adalo , are propitiated and confer power to the living. ref Keesing, 96. ref She is one of the great ancestors of about twelve to twenty generations ago, which do not represent the starting point of the deepest genealogies, but represent those believed to have founded the modern Kwaio way of life. ref Keesing, 74. ref In 1939 a priest above Uru named Noto i received messages from La aka that she had visited United States America and spoken with the American King, and announced that American warships would come and kill all British colonial officials. Based on these pronouncements, many Kwaio built houses to accommodate the American visitors. Messages from La aka were spoken in tongues, then translated by Noto i. British officers arrested Noto i and his followers, and when the Americans did not appear, many believers became disillusioned, though the movement continued underground for several years. ref Keesing, 25. ref By 1942, the British had in fact scattered in the face of the Empire of Japan Japan ese invasion, and the Americans came later in the Guadalcanal campaign . Malaita was in general not involved in World War II , but many Kwaio volunteered for the Solomon Island Labour Corps positions assisting the Americans on Guadalcanal or Tulagi . They found Americans generous and suspicious of colonial motives in a way the British had not been, and their experience with the Americans led to the anti colonial movement Maasina Ruru . ref Roger M. Keesing and Peter Corris. Lightning Meets the West Wind The Malaita Massacre. Melbourne Oxford University Press, 1980, 198 199. ref Notes reflist References Roger M. Keesing . Kwaio Rel ... more details
Aoba Detachment was the reinforced 4th Infantry Regiment IJA 2nd Division , a part of the Japanese Seventeenth Army Seventeenth Army . The commander of the Aoba Detachment was Major General Nasu, the commander of the 2nd Division s Infantry Group. Unlike other detachments which were usually named after their commander, the Aoba Detachment is thought to have been named after Mt. Aoba in Sendai , hometown of the 4th Infantry Regiment. Overview The commander of the Seventeenth Army, Lt. Gen. Haruyoshi Hyakutake , was ordered to attack New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa, and Port Moresby in order to cut off communications between United States America and Australia . Aoba Detachment was to land at Port Moresby , New Guinea , as soon as the Midway Atoll Midway Aleutians victory was won. Upon learning of the American landings on Guadalcanal , Imperial General Headquarters on August 10, 1942, ordered the Aoba Detachment undergoing training with the Japanese Fourteenth Army Fourteenth Army to join the Seventeenth Army under General Hyakutake. Three days later, orders were issued to recapture both Guadalcanal and Tulagi , in addition to carrying out the Operation Mo Port Moresby Operation . The advance echelon of the Aoba Detachment, reached Rabaul on 31 August, and was considered for use as reinforcements in the Battle of Milne Bay until Admiral Gunichi Mikawa concluded the situation was hopeless and ordered Milne Bay evacuated. Aoba Detachment was originally intended for the Port Moresby Operation, but was diverted to Guadalcanal. By September 4, the Aoba Detachment s three infantry battalions had landed on Guadalcanal. On the night of September 13th a Battle of Edson s Ridge second assault was launched against Honiara International Airport Henderson Field , involving the main force of the Kawaguchi Detachment and the remainder of the Ichiki Detachment. At the beginning of October the IJA 2nd Division began to arrive at Guadalcanal and absorbed the remains of the Adoba Detachment. ... more details
The Solomon Islands Labour Corps SILC was an World War II organization of about 3,200 ref Cite web url http www.nps.gov archive wapa indepth extContent wapa encounters encounters5.htm title Pacific Memories Island Encounters of World War II accessdate 2007 06 12 ref native Solomon Islands Solomon Islanders who served in the allied war effort. The corps were stationed at all military establishments, especially the large bases at Guadalcanal , the Russell Islands , and Tulagi . It was established in 1942 and functioned until 1946. ref Brij V. Lal, Edward D. Beechert, and Doug Munro. Plantation Workers Resistance and Accommodation , Honolulu University of Hawaii Press, 1993. Page 162. ref Others worked in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force . Officially, members of the corps received one pound per month in wages, although in practice they earned more from generous Americans for souvenirs or personal services. Political ideas from Americans about self determination and class consciousness spread, and it was former members of the SILC who began the anti colonial Maasina Ruru movement after the war. ref Lal et. al, 163. ref The meshing of different language groups in the corps and their contact with Americans had significant impact on Pijin , the Solomon Islands pidgin. ref Cite web url http www.pidgin.ca www History History.htm title Solomon Islands Pijin History accessdate 2007 06 12 Dead link date October 2010 bot H3llBot ref References Reflist Further reading Geoffrey M. White, David Gegeo, Karen Ann Watson Gegeo, and David Akin editors . Bikfala Faet Olketa Solomon Aelanda Rimembarem Wol Wo Tu The Big Death Solomon Islanders Remember World War II . Category Solomon Islands in World War II Category Military units and formations of the United Kingdom in World War II ... more details
orphan date September 2010 Samuel Stockton Miles was born on 12 November 1913 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . He received a B.A. degree from Princeton University , Princeton, New Jersey , in 1936, and an M.D. degree from the Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, Maryland , in 1940. Navy career Samuel S. Miles was appointed Lieutenant jg. , Medical Corps, United States Navy Reserve USNR , on 16 May 1942. Awarded the Silver Star During the American attack upon Tulagi , Solomon Islands , 7 August 1942, Samuel S. Miles bravely sought to administer medical treatment in the forward area. While attempting to reach casualties despite hostile fire, he was killed by the enemy. For his bravery and dedication, he was awarded the Silver Star . Namesake USS Samuel S. Miles DE 183 , laid down on 5 July 1943 by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newark, New Jersey was launched on 3 October 1943 and sponsored by Mrs. Samuel S. Miles. She was commissioned on 4 November 1943 See also Portal United States Navy References DANFS http www.history.navy.mil danfs s4 samuel s miles.htm Samuel S. Miles Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Miles, Samuel Stockton ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1913 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1942 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Miles, Samuel Stockton Category United States Navy officers Category 1913 births Category 1942 deaths Category Recipients of the Silver Star Category People from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Category American military personnel killed in World War II Category Princeton University alumni Category Johns Hopkins University alumni US med bio stub US navy bio stub ... more details
Captain Richard Rutledge Kane was the United Kingdom s fourth Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate , serving from 1921 to 1929. ref http www.rulers.org ruls2.html Solomon Islands at Rulers.org ref He made a speech on Malaita about the benefits that the new head tax was bringing the islanders. The speech caused considerable resentment, as in truth, there was little to show for the tax collection. The District Commissioner of Malaita, William R. Bell , then pushed the authorities to provide a Medical Officer and other return for the tax money. ref Roger M. Keesing and Peter Corris. Lightning Meets the West Wind The Malaita Massacre. Melbourne Oxford University Press, 1980 103 105. ref The resentment did not decrease, however, and Bell was murdered by Kwaio in October 1927 as part of the Malaita massacre . Kane was on tour at the time of the killing, and his deputy Captain N.S.B. Kidson sought immediate help. By the time Kane returned, a punitive expedition was nearly fully planned. ref Keesing and Corris, 150 156. ref In November Kane began planning for a resettlement of the Kwaio on another island. He was later encouraged by the High Commissioner in Fiji issuing a King s Regulation to Authorise the Detention of Certain Natives Formerly Living on the Island of Malaita, declaring as lawful the detention of the 200 Kwaio that were brought to Tulagi during the expedition. However, the scheme was quashed by Lieutenant Colonel H.C. Moorhouse , sent by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to investigate, who pushed for rapid repatriation of the detainees. They were returned in August 1928. ref Keesing and Corris, 188 190. ref Notes reflist s start s gov succession box before Charles Rufus Marshall Workman title Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate years 1921&ndash 1929 after Francis Noel Ashley s end Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Kane, Richard Rutledge ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE ... more details
Infobox military person name Earl Vincent Johnson birth date 28 December 1913 death date 8 May 1942 birth place Winthrop, Minnesota death place Coral Sea image caption nickname allegiance United States of America serviceyears 1937 1942 rank Lieutenant branch United States Navy unit USS Yorktown CV 5 USS Yorktown CV 5 battles Battle of the Coral Sea awards Navy Cross Earl Vincent Johnson was born on 28 December 1913 in Winthrop, Minnesota .Eldest son of Dr O.F and Salma E. Johnson. He enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve on 31 August 1937, and began naval aviation training the next year. He reported to Scouting Squadron 5 VS 5 on board USS Yorktown CV 5 USS Yorktown on 18 September 1939, and received a regular commission the following year. He was detached from the squadron in March 1942 and assigned to the ship s company. During the Battle of the Coral Sea , he flew a SBD 3 Dauntless Dive Bomber with Yorktown s Scouting 5 squadron, attacking Japan ese shipping in Tulagi Harbor and aircraft carrier s in the Coral Sea . Lieutenant Johnson was lost in aerial combat on 8 May, and awarded the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism. In 1943, the destroyer escort USS Earl V. Johnson DE 702 USS Earl V. Johnson DE 702 was named in honor of Lt Johnson, sponsored by his mother, Mrs. Selma E. Johnson along with his brother, Lt Curtiss S. Johnson, US Army. See also Portal box Biography United States Navy References DANFS http www.history.navy.mil danfs e1 earl v johnson.htm Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Johnson, Earl ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 28 December 1913 PLACE OF BIRTH Winthrop, Minnesota DATE OF DEATH 8 May 1942 PLACE OF DEATH Coral Sea DEFAULTSORT Johnson, Earl Category 1913 births Category 1942 deaths Category United States Navy officers Category Recipients of the Navy Cross Category People from Sibley County, Minnesota ... more details
towing Auxiliary Repair Dry Dock ARD 12 . The ship then proceeded to Tulagi and Munda Solomon Islands ... she reached 29 February 1944. Lyra returned to Tulagi and Guadalcanal, and was back in San Francisco ... more details
Infobox military person name Kendall Carl Campbell birth date Birth date 1917 7 25 death date death date and age 1942 3 10 1917 7 25 birth place Garden City, Kansas death place Coral Sea placeofburial placeofburial label Place of burial image caption nickname allegiance United States United States of America serviceyears 1940 1942 rank Ensign rank Ensign branch United States Naval Reserve unit Scouting Squadron aviation Squadron Five VS 5 battles World War II br Battle of the Coral Sea br New Guinea campaign awards Navy Cross br Gold Star in lieu of br the Second Navy Cross Kendall Carl Campbell was born 25 July 1917 in Garden City, Kansas . Navy career After enlisting in the United States Navy Reserve Naval Reserve 28 October 1940, Campbell reported to the Naval Reserve Aviation Base in Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City for flight training 15 November. Appointed Aviation Cadet on 1 February 1941, he became an Ensign rank Ensign on 19 August. He was assigned to carrier combat squadrons, courageously engaging the enemy in the early actions. Awarded the Navy Cross During the Battle of the Coral Sea , Ens. Campbell lost his life in this action and was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously. The official Navy citation The Navy Cross First Gold Star is presented to Kendall C. Campbell 0 099660 , Ensign, U.S. Navy Reserve , for extraordinary heroism and courageous devotion to duty as Pilot of an airplane in Scouting Squadron FIVE VS 5 , embarked from the U.S.S. YORKTOWN CV 5 in action against enemy Japanese forces at Tulagi Harbor on 4 May 1942, and in the Battle of the Coral Sea on 7 and 8 May 1942. These attacks, vigorously and persistently pressed home in the face of heavy anti aircraft fire, and on 8 May opposed also by enemy fighters, resulted in the sinking or damaging of at least eight enemy Japanese vessels at Tulagi and the sinking of one carrier and the sinking or severe damaging of another in the Coral Sea. Ensign Campbell s conscientious devotion to duty and gall ... more details
Group. In February 1943, Gale rejoined the 25th Minesweeping Flotilla at Tulagi in the Solomons. In April 1943, her sister ship Breeze arrived at Tulagi, at which point Gale , Breeze and HMNZS ... more details
Use dmy dates date May 2011 Task Force 61 CTF 61 is a task force of the United States Navy that today denotes what used to be designated the Mediterranean Amphibious Ready Group MARG of the United States Sixth Fleet . It is composed of approximately three Amphibious assault ship s, but in 2008 is designated the Expeditionary Strike Group that includes their embarked landing craft . ref http www.fas.org man dod 101 navy unit task force.htm ref From these ships, United States Marine Corps ground forces can move ashore by sea and air in amphibious assault or emergency evacuation missions. Once ashore, the ships of Task Force 61 are able to Military logistics logistically support the ground forces, until the objective of the landing has been accomplished. The TF 61 designation has been used by the United States Navy since World War II . World War II Task Force 61 seems to have first been formed in advance of the Guadalcanal Campaign of 1942. Admiral Ghormley, Commander, South Pacific Area , issued his Operation Plan No. 1 42 on 16 July 1942. ref Source HyperWar ref It was to govern the execution of Task One which was to be divided into three phases. The first would be a rehearsal in the Fiji Islands the second would be the seizure and occupation of Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu Tanambogo Tulagi and Guadalcanal Operation Watchtower . ref p.64, Lane ref . Additionally, the task force executed Operation Cleanslate on the Russell Islands in August 1942. The projected occupation of Ndeni in the Santa Cruz Islands would be the third and final phase. Operation Plan No. 1 42 organized two forces, Task Forces 61 and 63. The Expeditionary Force of eighty two ships designated as Task Force 61 , was to be commanded by Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher ref p.64, Lane ref , and included the amphibious force of Task Group 61.2 under Rear Admiral R.K Turner, escorted by the vessels of Task Group 61.1 Rear Admiral Leigh Noyes . The main landing force was to be the 1st Marine Division Unite ... more details
Medal during the initial landing on Tulagi in the Solomon Islands and the Purple Heart . Biography ..., in April 1942, and on April 30, 1942 reached Tutuila , American Samoa . During the Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu Tanambogo invasion of Tulagi , Solomon Islands , at the beginning of the Guadalcanal ... conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity, he was awarded the Silver Star for his actions on Tulagi ... more details
The rusting hulk of Kikuzuki , photographed on Tulagi in August 1943 after U.S. forces dragged the wreckage ... 10. Participating in Operation Mo , during the Invasion of Tulagi May 1942 invasion of Tulagi from ... CV 5 in TulagiTulagi harbor , killing 12 crewmen and injuring 22 others. The submarine chaser ... D. year 1997 month work Long Lancers publisher Combinedfleet.com ref After the capture of Tulagi ... more details
flagship for Admiral Shima s Tulagi invasion force, which was part of Operation Mo the invasion of Tulagi and Port Moresby in New Guinea . The Tulagi assault force began their Invasion of Tulagi May 1942 landings on Tulagi on 3 May, with Okinoshima successfully landing troops of the Kure ... more details
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