RINGS AROUND RABAUL: Struggle for the Solomon Islands (S01E07)
S01E07
The Japanese Navy is experiencing significant success in its territorial gains, with Rabaul in the New Britain Islands serving as its crucial hub. This episode of Victory at Sea highlights the U.S. strategy in late 1943, aiming to encircle and weaken the Japanese stronghold through targeted invasions of nearby islands such as Bougainville and Rendova. Special recognition goes to the Seabees, who rapidly made the airfields operational, along with the use of observation planes and radar that enabled the U.S. Navy to effectively halt Japanese reinforcements and counterattacks.
Show
Victory at Sea
Episode
S01E07
Air Date
Dec 21, 1952
Season 1 Episodes
S01E01
DESIGN FOR WAR: Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1941
S01E02
THE PACIFIC BOILS OVER: Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
S01E03
SEALING THE BREACH: Anti-submarine warfare, 1941-1943
S01E04
MIDWAY IS EAST: Japanese victories & the Midway Battle
S01E05
MEDITERRANEAN MOSAIC: Gibraltar, Allied & enemy fleets, Malta
S01E06
GUADALCANAL
S01E07
RINGS AROUND RABAUL: Struggle for the Solomon Islands
S01E08
MARE NOSTRUM: Mediterranean Command, 1940-1942
S01E09
SEA AND SAND: Invasion of North Africa, 1942-1943
S01E10
BENEATH THE SOUTHERN CROSS: War in the south Atlantic
S01E11
THE MAGNETIC NORTH: War from Murmansk to Alaska
S01E12
THE CONQUEST OF MICRONESIA: Carrier warfare--Gilberts and Marshalls
S01E13
MELANESIAN NIGHTMARE: New Guinea campaign
S01E14
ROMAN RENAISSANCE: Sicily and the Italian campaign
S01E15
D-DAY: Normandy
S01E16
KILLERS AND THE KILL: Victory in the Atlantic, 1943-1945
S01E17
THE TURKEY SHOOT: Conquest of the Marianas
S01E18
TWO IF BY SEA: Peleliu and Angaur
S01E19
BATTLE FOR LEYTE GULF: Sea battle for Leyte Gulf
S01E20
RETURN OF THE ALLIES: Liberation of the Philippines
S01E21
FULL FATHOM FIVE: U.S. submarines
S01E22
THE FATE OF EUROPE: Black Sea, south of France, surrender
S01E23
TARGET SURIBACHI: Iwo Jima
S01E24
THE ROAD TO MANDALAY: China, Burma, India, and Indian Ocean
S01E25
SUICIDE FOR GLORY: Okinawa
S01E26
DESIGN FOR PEACE: Surrender of Japan & aftermath of war