{"id":5534,"date":"2015-03-06T21:56:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T03:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5534"},"modified":"2015-03-06T21:56:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T03:56:55","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-1-7-march-1943-battle-of-the-bismarck-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5534","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 1&#8211;7 March 1943: Battle of the Bismarck Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_5533\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=5533\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5533\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5533\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/WBismarckSea-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Allied bomber attacks Japanese transport during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea [Public domain, wiki]\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/WBismarckSea-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/WBismarckSea-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/WBismarckSea.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allied bomber attacks Japanese transport during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea [Public domain, wiki]<\/p><\/div>The Battle of the Bismarck Sea was fought, this week in the war, 2&#8211;4 March 1943.<\/p>\n<p>After being alerted by their naval code breakers, the Americans and Australians launched air attacks against a Japanese convoy that was carrying reinforcements to New Guinea. All of the Japanese troop transports and half of their destroyer escort were sunk with heavy loss of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Battle of the Bismarck Sea was fought, this week in the war, 2&#8211;4 March 1943. After being alerted by their naval code breakers, the Americans and Australians launched air attacks against a Japanese convoy that was carrying reinforcements to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5534\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[838],"class_list":["post-5534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-war-ii","tag-battle-of-the-bismarck-sea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5536,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions\/5536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}