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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Hot for the Jap | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

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...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

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