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...surprise was complete. In six hours, U.S. soldiers, sailors and marines routed the small Jap garrisons and drove a few last stragglers to the hills...
Marching Through Georgia. Largest and most complicated of the combined operations were the attacks on Rendova and New Georgia. Advance units of marines, had already landed on New Georgia and scouted Jap positions. On the night of attack, Navy task forces probed deep into Jap waters, shelling Jap airdromes and coastal positions on the southern tip of Bougainville and at Vila on the island of Kolombangara. A small party also landed on one of the palmy little islands guarding Rendova Harbor...
...mine rifleman, Lou developed an accuracy famed in an outfit noted for its shooting, once he took up mortars. On Guadal he boasted he could lob a shell down a chimney, and did. When a Jap cruiser closed in to shore, Lou lobbed a few shells at it (like firing bee-bees at a bomber), explained, "I wanted to check my azimuth and it's just right." Many a mortar crew in the Solomons was Diamond-polished...
...Radar proved itself in the Battle of Britain, where it was a major factor in breaking up the Luftwaffe. It detected the first flight of Jap planes approaching Pearl Harbor, but a U.S. Army officer ignored the warning ("a historic example of the closed mind in action"). Then the U.S. put most of its best physicists and the bulk of its electronics industry to work mass-producing the instrument ("one of the great postwar chapters for the U.S. electronics industry to tell...
...bungalow near the sea in Sunset Beach, in Southern California, quietly Victory-gardening with a few Good twists - such as raising peacocks to eat. The doctor built the bungalow in 1941 because "I saw all this coming. When I was in the Aleutians. I was always running into Jap surveyors." He was in the Aleutians when the Japs took Kiska, departed as fast as the Cheechako would diesel...