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FRI 05 NOV 1943War day 1,527Pacific
On 5 November 1943, American carrier aircraft struck Rabaul. The ships there had been watching the Allied advance at Bougainville; now they had a different problem.
The American landing at Empress Augusta Bay on Bougainville had begun on 1 November. The island offered airfield sites for operations against the Japanese base at Rabaul, and a Japanese naval force had already tried to disrupt the landing. In the night fighting off Empress Augusta Bay, US Task Force 39 sank a light cruiser and a destroyer; two heavy cruisers and another destroyer were damaged. Rabaul was no longer just a name on the map behind the landing. It was a base from which Japanese forces could contest the foothold.
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