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...world, from Varttina (a Finnish group with peppy female lead singers) to Heri Dikongue (a guitarist and singer from Cameroon). Tenda Brasil, another stage, is a showcase for up-and-coming young Brazilian acts as well as a few established masters. And finally, there's the main stage, Palco Munda, a huge white tent that looks like a daisy gone to seed or the back of an albino armadillo or a punk rocker with spiky bleached-blank hair. The front of the tent is cut off and the stage is open to an enormous field which is about half full...
...37th trained in the heat of the deep South and practiced jungle combat in the Fiji Islands. In the summer of 1943 it landed on New Georgia for its baptism of fire. There the 43rd Division had been fighting a grisly campaign to seize Munda airfield. Men lived in foxholes where infiltrating Japanese sometimes found them and fought them with knives and bare hands...
...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 first tested in battle: the Essex class carrier, the Independence type carrier, and the sensational Grumman Hellcat...
TIME'S V-Mail Edition started at Munda in the Solomon Islands just a week or so after the Americans landed there in their first move northward from Guadalcanal - and most of the people here at TIME still think of it as the "Munda Edition," forgetting that there are now many other places in both oceans where similar editions are printed...
...Guadalcanal, Munda, Nouméa, Bougainville, and one (unidentified) about to open...