Battle of Enogai

Battle of Enogai
Part of the Pacific Theater of World War II
A dead Japanese heavy machine-gun crew after the battle on July 11, 1943
Date 10–11 July 1943 Location New Georgia, Solomon Islands Result U.S. victory
Belligerents
United States	Empire of Japan
Commanders and leaders
Harry B. Liversedge	Minoru Sasaki Saburo Okamura
Strength
1,200	400
Casualties and losses
51 killed	350 killed

The Battle of Enogai was a battle between United States and Imperial Japanese Army and Navy forces on 10–11 July 1943 during the New Georgia Campaign in the Solomon Islands during the Pacific War. In the battle, U.S. Marine Raiders, supported by two United States Army infantry battalions, attacked and destroyed a Japanese garrison guarding the small port of Enogai on the Dragons Peninsula on New Georgia. After conducting an unsuccessful follow-up attack on nearby Bairoko, the American forces remained in the Enogai area until the end of the New Georgia Campaign.

References

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