Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Rabaul gari ne a Gabashin New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Sojojin Japan sun sauka a Rabaul a ranar 23 ga Fabrairun 1942, suna kama shi a watan Fabrairun wannan shekarar. An canza tsohuwar yankin Ostiraliya zuwa babban jirgin ruwan Japan da kayan aikin iska. Jafananci sun dogara da shi sosai, kuma sun yi amfani da shi a matsayin wurin ƙaddamarwa don ƙarfafawar Jafananci zuwa New Guinea da Guadalcanal. A Dukan Yaƙin Solomon
, neutralizing Rabaul ya zama babban burin kokarin Allied a cikin Solomons.