JUNE

30
General MacArthur begins offensive with landings in New Guinea

JULY

2
U.S. forces land on New Georgia

6
First Naval Battle of Kula Gulf; U.S. Naval Task Force bombards Kiska for the first time

13
Second Naval Battle of Kula Gulf

22
Kiska subjected to heavy naval and air attacks

28
Japanese secretly evacuate Kiska

AUGUST

2
JFK's PT-109 sunk

5
U.S. forces capture New Georgia's Munda Airfield

6
Naval Battle of Vella Bay

23
Japanese bomb Chungking, China, for first time since 1941

27
U.S. lands on Arundel Island, Solomons

SEPTEMBER

4
Australians land near Lae

5
American paratroopers are dropped at Nadzab

11
Salamaua regained ???? Bay

15
Allies land unopposed on Kiska

16
Lae captured

OCTOBER

5-6
Aircraft from U.S. aircraft carriers bomb Wake Island

15
From India, Chinese advance into Burma

NOVEMBER

1
U.S. forces land on Bougainville, at Empress Augusta Bay

2
Naval Battle of Empress Augusta Bay

5
First U.S. aircraft carrier air attack on Rabaul

11
Second raid by planes from U.S. aircraft carriers on Rabaul

20-24
U.S. landings on Tarawa and Makin

23
Tarawa and Makin secured

26
Naval Battle off Cape St. George

DECEMBER

5
Japanese aircraft raid Calcutta, India

7
U.S. Marines holding the Empress Augusta Bay perimeter are reinforced

26
U.S. Marines land at Cape Gloucester, New Britain