Word: lavella
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the Jap was looking the other way, an amphibious U.S. force steamed by moonlight around Jap-held Kolombangara, landed at dawn on Vella Lavella's south eastern shore. Captured were some 350 surprised Nips, an unheard-of number of prisoners in the South Pacific. Other Japs fled into the jungle...
WASHINGTON--American airmen, hammering Jap positions northwest of U. S.-held Guadalcanal, have staged their 78th raid on the big enemy base at Munda and scored bomb hits on a transport and corvette off Vella Lavella Island, the Navy disclosed today. Both of the enemy vessels were left burning...