Coast Watching in the Solomon Islands: The Bougainville Reports, December 1941-July 1943A. B. Feuer The Bougainville Reports--by Jack Read, Paul Mason, and other coast watchers--are vivid accounts of the coast watching activities on Buka and Bougainville Islands in the Solomon Islands chain during World War II and describe in detail one of the most successful intelligence operations of the war. By the time war came to the South Pacific on December 8, 1941, an excellent intra-district communication network had already been established on Bougainville. A daily system of radio reporting was put into effect by Lieutenant Commander Eric Feldt, who later wrote: Few realized that when the first waves of United States Marines landed on the bitterly contested beaches of Guadalcanal, coast watchers on Bougainville, New Georgia, and other islands were sending warning signals of impending Japanese air raids almost two hours before enemy aircraft formations appeared over the island. |
Contents
Organizing the Coast Watching Operation in Northern | 11 |
Coast Watching Activities Begin in Earnest | 27 |
Air Battles at Guadalcanal August 8 1942January | 51 |
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