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Battle of the Bismarck Sea
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Battle_of_the_Bismarck_Sea
GPTKB entity
Statements (27)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:battle
gptkbp:Allied_air_forces_involved
gptkb:United_States_Army_Air_Forces
gptkb:Royal_Australian_Air_Force
gptkbp:Allied_aircraft_lost
13
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
gptkb:Operation_Michaelmas
gptkbp:combatant
gptkb:Allied_forces
gptkb:Imperial_Japanese_forces
gptkbp:commander
gptkb:George_Kenney
gptkb:Masatomi_Kimura
gptkbp:date
2–4 March 1943
gptkbp:followedBy
gptkb:Salamaua–Lae_campaign
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Battle of the Bismarck Sea
gptkbp:Japanese_ships_sunk
4 destroyers
8 transports
gptkbp:Japanese_troops_killed
over 3,000
gptkbp:location
Bismarck Sea
near Lae, New Guinea
gptkbp:objective
Japanese troop convoy to Lae
gptkbp:partOf
gptkb:World_War_II
gptkb:Pacific_War
gptkbp:precededBy
gptkb:Battle_of_the_Coral_Sea
gptkbp:result
Allied victory
gptkbp:significance
major blow to Japanese reinforcement efforts in New Guinea
gptkbp:tactics
skip bombing
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Arleigh_Burke-class_destroyer
gptkb:South_West_Pacific_Theatre
gptkbp:bfsLayer
5