Story by Lance Cpl. Jacob Wilson | III Marine Expeditionary Force | 03.26.2019
U.S. Marines with 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, completed the Bougainville I pre-deployment training exercise.
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Joshua Mann | Ohio National Guard Public Affairs | 03.12.2019
Soldiers of the Ohio National Guard’s 37th Infantry Division defended the Island of Bougainville from Japanese army attack during the Battle of Hill 700, March 8-12, 1944. What had been a relatively quiet and routine defensive operation turned into some of the bloodiest and most fiercely fought days the Buckeyes saw in their nearly 600 days in combat during World War II....
Story by Tech. Sgt. Araceli Donaldson | Fleet Public Affairs Center San Diego | 07.01.2015
The hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) returned six patients to Arawa today, including an 18-month-old infant, whom the ship’s helicopter rescue team retrieved yesterday from a small land mass off the coast of Carteret Island in Papua New Guinea....
Story by Chief Petty Officer Gregory Badger | Fleet Public Affairs Center San Diego | 06.27.2015
The hospital ship USNS Mercy ship (T-AH 19) arrived in Arawa, the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, today for its second mission stop of Pacific Partnership 2015....
Courtesy Story | 215th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 03.01.2015
“The bush in front of me blew apart, up jumps a skinny little Japanese Soldier, clad only in shorts and holding up a (Arisaka) .25-caliber rifle. Grinning, he pulls out a single shell and lowers his hand to the trigger... I lower my M1 Garand and pump six shells into him.” Bernacki said. “It was the hardest thing… to shoot the kid.”...
