Talk:Battle of the Bismarck Sea order of battle

IJN air units
Below are the IJN air units in this battle, based at Rabaul and/or Kavieng. I don't know how to do a table, so someone can add the information to this article if they want to. The 204 Air Group is not the 204th Air Group. Each number in its and other air groups' names are discrete identifiers of descriptive information related to the unit's structure and mission. The source for all the information is Hata, p. 49, which I will add to the ref section. Cla68 (talk) 10:30, 11 January 2012 (UTC)


 * 11th Air Fleet/Southeast Area Fleet
 * 204 Air Group (Buin/Rabaul), Captain Chisato Morita
 * 252 Air Group (Rabaul), Captain Yoshitane Yanagimura
 * 253 Air Group (Buka/Kavieng/Rabaul/Surumi), Commander Yoshito Kobayashi


 * First Air Flotilla
 * Zuihō Fighter Group (Kavieng) Lieutenant Moriyasu Hidaka

Command error
I in no way want to get into a dogfight over this, so I will merely inform those who follow this list that the commander of the 38th Bomb Group was not Col. Fay Upthegrove, who had returned from Australia in September 1942 to take command of the 99th Bomb Group, in training for combat in Europe. The 38th's commander at the time of the Bismarck Sea was Lt. Col. Brian "Shanty" O'Neill, who flew both missions of the 38th that day in the squadron lead ships. Maurer lists his date of command as 19 Oct 42, while group records show it as 6 Nov 42. Either way, the data shown on this list is woefully off the mark. A tip: reliance on Morison for anything dealing with the AAF is foolish.--Reedmalloy (talk) 02:42, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 5 external links on Battle of the Bismarck Sea order of battle. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20160303213609/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=10541 to http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=10541
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232518/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=11963 to http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=11963
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20160303195657/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=11965 to http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=11965
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20160611080550/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=11966 to http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=11966
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20111003123404/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=9766 to http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=9766

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 07:21, 16 July 2017 (UTC)