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...troops closing in on Munda had learned much since Bataan; these troops were fighting a new kind of warfare. Once they wore khaki and blue dungarees; now they were clad in mottled yellow-brown-green coveralls that blended with the deep color and shadow of the tropics. Once they had little else to fight with but machine guns, rifles and knives; now they had ample artillery and support from sea and air. Once they massed and deployed awkwardly in textbook tactics; now they crept silently through the jungle. At Viru Harbor, U.S. Marines, infiltrating from the rear, wiped...
Smashing the Defenses. Last week's invasion of Rendova Island had been followed by a crossing of the six-mile channel to a landing at Zanana, from which "Barracudas" (specially trained infantry units) pressed west to within two miles of Munda. On western New Georgia a landing was effected at Rice Anchorage, four miles above Bairoko Harbor, from which Munda had been supplied. Troops moved to isolate Bairoko and Munda...
From Rendova, from coral islets in Blanche Channel, from positions on New Georgia, American artillery pounded at Munda. In one supporting raid the Allied Air Forces dropped 70 tons of bombs on the surrounded Japs. U.S. warships lobbed hundreds of shells on Bairoko and Vila...
...initiative in the Solomons, or would the Jap be able to reinforce and doggedly hold his own, as he had for so many months on Guadalcanal? As the week ended, the force and diversity of U.S. attacks had been stepped up; the initiative was being held. The fall of Munda, the forward base with which the Jap had hoped to neutralize U.S. holdings in the Solomons, seemed near...
Artillerymen chose positions. Within two hours of landing they were shelling Jap positions at the attack's main objective - Munda airfield on New Georgia, six miles away across a tortuous, coral-pocked channel...