Coast Watching In The Solomon Islands
The Bougainville Reports—by Jack Read, Paul Mason, and other coast watchers—are vivid accounts of the coast watching activities on Buka and Bougainville Islands in the Solomon Islands chain during World War II and describe in detail one of the most successful intelligence operations of the war. By the time war came to the South Pacific on December 8, 1941, an excellent intra-district communication network had already been established on Bougainville. A daily system of radio reporting was put...
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Recounts one of the most successful intelligence operations of World War II. Few realized that when the first waves of U.S. Marines landed on Guadalcanal, coast watchers on Bougainville, New Georgia, and other islands had already sent warning signals of impending Japanese air raids.
MapsForewordPrefaceIntroduction: The South Pacific Coast Watching Network1The Retreat from Buka Island and the Abandonment of Kieta, December 12, 1941-August 7, 194212Organizing the Coast Watching Operation in Northern Bougainville, February 20-April 5, 1942113Coast Watching Activities Begin in Earnest, April 19-August 7, 1942274Setting Up the Southern Bougainville Coast Watching Station, March 6-August 7, 1942375Air Battles at Guadalcanal, August 8, 1942-January 1, 1943516Porapora Days and the U.S.S. Nautilus Rescue, November 4, 1942-January 1, 1943617Missionary Work on Buka and Bougainville and the U.S.S. Nautilus Rescue, September 1940-January 4, 1943758The Japanese Search for the Southern Bougainville Radio Station, August 8, 1942-January 1, 1943819The Reorganization of the Coast Watching Operation and the U.S.S. Gato Rescue, January 2-April 30, 19438910Heading North, January 2-April 30, 194310911The Japanese Attack on Porapora and Other Coast Watcher Locations, May 1-July 19, 194311512The End of Attempts to Return to Southern Bougainville, May 1-July 19, 194313513The Death of Admiral Yamamoto and the Ambush of Mason's Party, March 29-June 26, 194314914Escape from Bougainville: The U.S.S. Guardfish Rescues, July 20-July 30, 194315515Epilogue159Afterword161Military and Police Personnel on Buka and Bougainville163Index167
