Word: bairoko
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...Helena steamed on to her destiny. She pounded enemy airfields, troop areas, shore batteries. Down in her log went names now legendary: Munda, Vila, Kolombangara, Enogai Inlet, Bairoko Harbor. Finally came the Battle of Kula Gulf, a turning point which cost the Jap something between nine and eleven cruisers and destroyers. It cost the U.S. one ship: the Helena...
...others: Kiska, Bairoko Harbor...
Some of them tried to escape in barges across Kula Gulf to Vila on Kolombangara Island. PT boats operating in the dark gulf took a heavy toll. The original Jap garrison at Bairoko was estimated at 400 men, probably increased later by troops retreating from Munda, twelve miles south...
...Japs relinquished another position last week, though not without a fight. After 52 days of stubborn resistance they gave up Bairoko, their last holding on the island of New Georgia...
...unexpected move bypassed Jap-held Bairoko Harbor, Vila airfield and lesser positions in such jungle islands as Gizo. Vella Lavella was important as bait. The Jap bit. He tried almost immediately to land reinforcements on Vella Lavella and came down in 20-to-30 troop-carrying barges escorted by four destroyers. U.S. warships struck. One Jap destroyer was probably sunk, another damaged and a third hit. Most of the barges were sunk. Although an estimated 300 Japs managed to get ashore, some 1,000 perished...