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| Location The Battle of Cape Saint George (Battle of Cape St. George) was a naval battle between the U.S. Navy (USN) and Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) on November 25, 1943 south of Cape St. George on southern New Ireland. Also known as the Battle off Cape Saint George (Battle off Cape St. George). This was the last Naval surface action of the Solomon campaign. Wartime History After the November 1, 1943 U.S. landing at Empress Augusta Bay at Torokina on Bougainville, the Japanese initially believed the landing was a decoy. On November 21, 1943 a force of five destoyers was sent to reinforce Buka including Amagiri, Yūgiri and Uzuki with 920 Japanese Army soldiers embarked escorted by Ōnami and Makinami. On November 25, 1943 at 1:41am the five Japanese destroyers were spotted by U.S. reconassiance aircraft. To intercept the force, U.S. Navy (USN) sent five destroyers from Destroyer Squadron 23 under the command of Captain Arleigh A. Burke including Destroyer Division 45 USS Charles Ausburne (DD-570), USS Claxton (DD-571), and USS Dyson (DD-572) plus Destroyer Division 46: USS Spence (DD-512) and USS Converse (DD-509) under Commander Bernard Austin. In support, nine PT Boats under Commander Henry Farrow entered the Buka Passage to block the enemy if the destroyers were unable to intercept. Onami Hit by several torpedoes and sank immediatly with all hands Makinami Disabled by torpedo and sunk by gunfire and torpedoes References Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) Solomon Islands Campaign: Volume XIII Bougainville Operations and the Battle of Cape St. George 3–25 November 1943 [PDF] page 51 (map), 53-61 (Battle of Cape St. George) Siege of Rabaul (1996) page 24 Imperial Japanese Navy Aces (1998) page 33 Contribute
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