Word: kavieng
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knots. They steamed through narrow passages of the Solomons so often and so fast that Burke had to be warned to slow down there: his ships were washing the Army's waterside privies away as fast as they could be built. They shelled Buka and Kavieng, ranged west to the Bismarcks and beyond toward Truk. There was no slackening of their speed, no change in the quality of their shooting...
...looked last week as though the day was approaching when there would have to be one overall commander in the Pacific. Just as the Solomons and New Guinea operations had converged on Kavieng and Rabaul, so now the Central Pacific and the southern operations began to converge on the Carolines...
Together General MacArthur and Admiral Halsey now had completed the ring around the Japanese in Rabaul and Kavieng. For nearly a year General Mac-Arthur has had "strategic direction" of the double campaign. From now on theirs would be definitely a single operation...
Having lost an astounding total of 793 planes at Rabaul since Dec. 17, the Japs apparently decided to lose no more there. Twice more during the week U.S. destroyers shelled Kavieng, which seems next on the list of untenables...
...Before the week ended, Kavieng (New Ireland) and once mighty Rabaul suffered the indignity of being shelled by destroyers' 5-in. guns...