Word: rendova
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General MacArthur, was under the immediate command of Admiral Halsey. His Naval, Marine and Army forces aimed at Munda, a Japanese air base and army station on New Georgia Island, some 200 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. On the approach to Munda, the Americans first took the outlying island of Rendova, and positions on New Georgia itself, and on Vangunu Island...
Marching Through Georgia. Largest and most complicated of the combined operations were the attacks on Rendova and New Georgia. Advance units of marines, had already landed on New Georgia and scouted Jap positions. On the night of attack, Navy task forces probed deep into Jap waters, shelling Jap airdromes and coastal positions on the southern tip of Bougainville and at Vila on the island of Kolombangara. A small party also landed on one of the palmy little islands guarding Rendova Harbor...
Then destroyers and transports slid into Blanche Channel (between Rendova and New Georgia). Just before a stormy dawn, the transports hove to off Rendova. Landing barges snaked their way swiftly through a reef-jagged channel and ashore. Above loomed the jungle-robed, broken crater of Rendova Peak...