Kampanye militer Kepulauan Solomon

Kampanye militer Kepulauan Solomon adalah sebuah kampanye militer utama dari Perang Pasifik pada Perang Dunia II. Kampanye tersebut dimulai dengan pendaratan Jepang dan pendudukan beberapa wilayah di Kepulauan Solomon Britania dan Bougainville, di Teritorial Nugini, pada enam bulan pertama 1942. Jepang menduduki wilayah-wilayah tersebut dan mulai membangun beberapa pangkalan angkatan laut dan udara dengan tujuan melindungi serangan Jepang di Nugini, mendirikan sebuah barrier keamanan untuk pangkalan Jepang utama di Rabaul, Britania Baru, dan menyediakan pangkalan untuk jalur suplai antara kekuatan Sekutu Amerika Serikat, Australia dan Selandia Baru.

Kampanye Kepulauan Solomon
Bagian dari Teater Pasifik pada Perang Dunia II
Peta Kepulauan Solomon memperlihatkan kemajuan Sekutu pada 1943 dan pangkalan angkatan laut dan udara.
Tanggal Januari 1942 – 21 Agustus 1945 Lokasi Kepulauan Solomon Britania/Teritorial Nugini, Pasifik Selatan Hasil Kemenangan Sekutu
Pihak terlibat
Amerika Serikat Australia Selandia Baru Koloni Fiji Tonga	Kekaisaran Jepang
Tokoh dan pemimpin
Chester Nimitz Douglas MacArthur Robert Ghormley William Halsey, Jr. William Sydney Marchant Alexander Patch Frank Jack Fletcher Richmond K. Turner Eric Feldt Roy Geiger Theodore S. Wilkinson Oscar Griswold Stanley Savige	Isoroku Yamamoto † Chūichi Nagumo Shigeyoshi Inoue Nishizo Tsukahara Takeo Kurita Kiyohide Shima Jinichi Kusaka Shōji Nishimura Gunichi Mikawa Raizo Tanaka Hitoshi Imamura Harukichi Hyakutake Minoru Sasaki
Korban
10,600 tewas 40+ kapal tenggelam, 800 pesawat hancur	86,000 tewas 50+ kapal tenggelam, 1,500 pesawat hancur

Lihat pula

• Kampanye Nugini
• Kampanye Britania Baru
• Kampanye Kepulauan Gilbert dan Marshall
• Kampanye Guadalcanal
• Operasi Vengeance
• AirSols

Sumber

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Pranala luar

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Bacaan tambahan

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