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US Navy - Amphibious Assault Ship LHA 8 - USS Bougainville |
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Type,
class: Amphibious Assault Ship (general purpose);
America
class / Flight I Builder: Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA STATUS: Awarded: June 30, 2016 Laid down: March 14, 2019 Launched: late 2023 (est) Christened: - Commissioned: - UNDER CONSTRUCTION Homeport: - Namesake: Bougainville campaign (WWII - Pacific) Ships Motto: I Technical Data: see: INFO > America class Amphibious Assault Ship - LHA |
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 under construction at Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi - May 2023  under construction at Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi - November 2021  under construction at Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi - October 2021  under construction at Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi - September 2021  under construction at Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi - May 2021  under construction at Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi - August 2020   |
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USS Bougainville (LHA 8): |
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The Bougainville campaign ... was a series of land and naval battles of the Pacific campaign of World War II between Allied forces and the Empire of Japan. It was part of Operation Cartwheel, the Allied grand strategy in the South Pacific. The campaign took place in the Northern Solomons in two phases. The first phase, in which American troops landed and held the perimeter around the beachhead at Torokina, lasted from November 1943 through November 1944. The second phase, in which primarily Australian troops went on the offensive, mopping up pockets of starving, isolated but still-determined Japanese, lasted from November 1944 until August 1945, when the last Japanese soldiers on the island surrendered. Operations during the final phase of the campaign saw the Australian forces advance north towards the Bonis Peninsula and south towards the main Japanese stronghold around Buin, although the war ended before these two enclaves were completely destroyed. |
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