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| Keywords: RG-208-AA-158-L-001.tif en U S Flamethrowing tank blasts Japanese on Bougainville <br> Flames sear a Japanese pillbox as an American soldier emerges from the turret of a flame-throwing tank during the American advance on Bougainville Island in the Northern Solomons in the South Pacific Tanks with flame-throwing units such as this one have proved invaluable in the Bougainville fighting U S forces expanded their Empress Augusta Bay beachhead on the island's western coast after crushing desperate Japanese attempts to crack the American lines In March 1944 alone an estimated 5 000 Japanese soldiers were killed in the fighting on the island where the enemy entirely cut off from supplies faces annihilation or capture 1944-04-22 National Archives and Records Administration author PD-USGov Uploaded with UploadWizard Files from NARA ExtravaSCANza Bougainville campaign 1943-45 | ||||