Operation Cartwheel, 1943-1944

found: History Channel online, Dec. 1, 2011This day in history : June 30 page (Operation Cartwheel launched on June 30, 1943; a multipronged attack on Rabaul and several islands in the Solomon Sea in the South Pacific; the joint effort takes nine months to complete; the purpose of Cartwheel was to destroy the barrier formation Japan had created in the Bismark Archipelago)

found: US Army campaigns of WWII : New Guinea, 2003:p. 8 (General MacArthur's staff's plan for MacArthur's return to the Philippines; code-named Reno, it became the basis for operations against Japan from Feb. 1943 through Aug. 1944; during that time, Reno underwent five modifications and from these decisions grew the Cartwheel operation, a joint Southwest and South Pacific undertaking the originally envisioned 13 amphibious operations over six months culminating in the capture of Rabaul; Cartwheel began on June 30, 1943)

found: Cartwheel : the reduction of Rabaul, 2006:p. 20, etc. (Elkton III : the plan for Cartwheel; Elkton III plan, the second revision of MacArthur's plan for the capture of Raubul, was completed on Apr. 26, 1943; the operations planned for Elkton III were lumped under the code name Cartwheel)