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Article promoted by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 23:44, 3 January 2018 (UTC) « Return to A-Class review list[reply]

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Bougainville counterattack (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Launched in March 1944, the Bougainville counterattack was a large-scale assault by Japanese forces on the US lodgement that had been established around Cape Torokina on Bougainville. Aimed at destroying the Allied base, the attack was hampered by poor intelligence and a failure to concentrate forces in sufficient numbers to achieve break in. The Japanese attackers ultimately suffered heavy casualties before the counterattack was called off. Afterwards, the fighting on Bougainville largely petered out until the arrival of Australian forces in late 1944. The article is the result of a collaboration between Nick and myself, and was partially developed by Nick in draft space in 2012, before being expanded by both of us and moved to article space in 2016. It went through GA in September last year and is presented here now for further development and review. Thank you for your time. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 04:07, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Support Comments by Sturmvogel_66

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  • It's not immediately clear that the Allied base is at Torokina in the lede. Either specify the location in the first sentence or drop it from the second, saving it for the main body.
  • Artillery guns Not a phrase I'm used to seeing. Suggest dropping the "guns"
  • Link mortars, trenches, foxholes, beachhead, searchlight, artillery, gunboat, pillbox, platoon, company, bunker, brigadier general, major general
  • Japanese troops were also detected around the outpost, which was held by the 1st Fiji Battalion at Ibu to the north of the perimeter what outpost? Should be discussed as part of the defenses.
  • Put a non-breaking space between gun size and unit. forex 75mm pack howitzers
  • Who did the air units belong to? I presume Navy and Marine, but clarification would be nice.
  • Suggest switching to military time to obviate need to specify and link am/pm
  • well coordinated attack hyphen between well and coordinated and another one here: follow up attacks
  • There's a nice photo of tanks from the 754th during the counterattack on the unit's page that might be useful here.
  • No DABs, no overlinking.
  • I'll make one further pass once these have been addressed.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:35, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Move the link for US Navy to the first usage. Same with howitzer.
  • Provide conversions for all measurements on first use.
  • Link mountain gun, destroyer, dive bomber, torpedo bomber, fighter
  • The air units on Bougainville (designated AirSols) had 64 SBD Dauntless dive bombers and 32 TBF Avenger torpedo bombers available for ground support tasks.[29] These aircraft were assigned to the 1st Marine Air Wing. Suggest combining these two sentences.
  • I'll finish going through the combat narrative later.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 03:45, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • After initial gains, this attack was held up and eventually the company had to be withdrawn for the night after reinforcements from the 132nd Infantry Regiment failed to reach them before dark. Which company is meant here? Presumably the company with the flamethrowers immediately preceding, but I found it confusing because I assumed that the reinforcements were meant for the defenders of the North Knob, not the attackers on the South Knob. Perhaps some tweaking?
  • By this time, I presume that the Japanese cavalry was dismounted?
    • Yes, I think so, but I can't find anything as yet to confirm. I checked Tanaka p. 276 , Miller p. 377 and Gailey pp. 166 & 169 and all of them mention the 6th Cav, but don't mention if they were dismounted or not. Nick: do you have anything that might confirm this? Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 04:53, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hyakutake concentrated his forces early in the attack, rather than cumulatively I think that you mean consecutively here.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 02:33, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - I reviewed this at GA and with the changes made so far as part of this review I believe this meets the A class criteria. Anotherclown (talk) 23:46, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

CommentsSupport by PM

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Great job on this article. I have a few comments/queries:

That's me done. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 09:54, 31 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]


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