Word: lavella
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert Salau was born about 42 years ago on densely wooded Vella Lavella, some 200 miles northwest of Guadalcanal in the Solomons group. His mother had been captured by his father's head-hunting tribe in a raid on another island. ("My people heathen, you know-killing one another.") When the Adventists set up a school in the beach village, young Salau ran away from home to join, and eventually became a pastor. Now, he estimates he has had a hand, in converting some 2,000 natives in the Pacific islands. Says Salau...
Inching through the Balete Pass, south of Baguio, was Major General Charles L. Mullings' 25th Division, which was at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 and has been in the Pacific ever since. Behind these veterans were Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Vella Lavella. Ahead of them, seven exasperating miles filled with Japs fighting from caves, was Baguio. Pushing in from the west, over the same kind of country, at the same pace, against the same stiff opposition, were Swift's other divisions, the 32nd and 33rd...
...masterly work" said The Nation) and America's Navy in World War II (The New Republic's reviewer called it "as fine a piece of current history as I have ever read"). No armchair admiral, he knows sea warfare firsthand-steamed up to Jap-held Vella Lavella to help rescue the cruiser Helena's survivors after the Battle of Kula Gulf - was one of the first five white men to reach Munda airport (he got there 24 hours before our troops marched in) -and in the first raid on Marcus Island he saw three new fighting tools...
...days later the O'Bannon was one of a small force which steamed boldly up to Jap-held Vella Lavella to rescue Helena survivors who were hiding there in the jungles. Two months later off the same shore, she and her sister the Chevalier and the smaller Selfridge met and engaged a force of nine Jap ships, sank three of them and put the rest to rout. The Chevalier, torpedoed, sank. The lucky and valiant O'Bannon survived to win her Presidential citation...
...Scheme. It was a vital goal of the counteroffensive which MacArthur began last June 30. Inch-by-inch land fighting had brought MacArthur's men laboriously to Lae, to Finschhaven in New Guinea, to Munda and Vella Lavella in the Solomons. Americans who toiled in the rain and heat to build airfields, Australians who fought to clear the enemy from Huon Gulf, made the aerial climax possible...