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commander, 4 engagements

Battles of Jinichi Kusaka

Battles of Jinichi Kusaka

Japanese admiral (1888–1972)

Jinichi Kusaka is recorded as a commander at 4 placed engagements in the atlas in 1943: 3 battles and 1 naval action across 2 present-day countries, most in Papua New Guinea (2), Solomon Islands (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 1,637 km apart end to end, 546 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Pacific War (2), World War II (1), South West Pacific theater of World War II (1).

Battle of Rennell IslandNew Georgia CampaignOperation CartwheelBougainville CampaignBattle of Rennell IslandNew Georgia CampaignOperation CartwheelBougainville CampaignPort MoresbyHoniaraLae500 km7.806S, 156.553E
4 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1943: 4 engagements4 in 194319431943
4 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Battle of Rennell Island, 1943New Georgia Campaign, 1943Operation Cartwheel, 1943Bougainville Campaign, 194319431943
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 3

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
29 January 1943Battle of Rennell IslandRennell IslandJapanese victory
20 June 1943New Georgia CampaignNew Georgia Islands, Solomon Islands511 km NWAllied victory
30 June 1943Operation CartwheelMelanesia, Papua New Guinea744 km NWAllied victory
1 November 1943Bougainville CampaignBougainville Island, Papua New Guinea382 km SEAllied victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.