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178 Pacifica Military History
NEW GUINEA: Six V Bomber Command B-24s attack a barracks at
Manokwari.
Australian Army ground forces advancing up the coast from
Sattelburg seize several towns, including a Japanese supply base, without
a fight.
SOLOMON ISLANDS: Twenty-one XIII Bomber Command B-24s
attack Kieta; 18 42d Medium Bombardment Group B-25s and AirSols
P-39s and SBDs attack targets on the Bougainville coast.
Construction work is begun on Bougainville/Piva Uncle
Airdrome.
November 30, 1943
BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO: V Bomber Command B-24s attack
New Britain/Cape Gloucester Airdrome; and B-25s attack targets on
the New Britain coast.
BURMA: During the night of November 30–December 1, RAF
Wellingtons attack targets in Rangoon.
CENTRAL PACIFIC: After being relieved by a VII Fighter Command
P-39 squadron, VMF-441 is withdrawn from Nanomea Airdrome to
Samoa to transition from F4Fs to F4Us.
CHINA: Eight Fourteenth Air Force P-40s strafe boats near Ansiang;
six P-40 fighter-bombers attack fuel and ammunition dumps at
Luchiangpa; and P-40s air-drop supplies to Chinese Army forces encircled
at Changte.
GILBERT ISLANDS: Six VMSB-331 SBDs and maintenance personnel
displace to Betio/Hawkins Field from Nukufetau Airdrome.
MARSHALL ISLANDS: Eighteen VII Bomber Command B-24s dispatched
from Nanomea Airdrome to attack Maloelap Atoll abort in the
face of bad weather, but two from that flight and ten others based at
Canton Island Airdrome are able to complete the mission.
NEW GUINEA: V Bomber Command B-24s attack Alexishafen; and
B-25s attack Kalasa and motor vehicles near Waroe.
SOLOMON ISLANDS: Seventeen 42d Medium Bombardment Group
B-25s attack Malai in the Shortland Islands; several USN PVs attack
Mawareka; and AirSols fighters attack numerous targets on Bougainville,
Choiseul, and in the Shortlands