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Trumpeted Douglas MacArthur: "For strategic purposes this marks the practical end of the New Guinea campaign. The final stage has also been reached in the offense initiated in this theater on June 29, 1943 [Rendova Island attack...
...directed the landing on Rendova from his flagship the McCawley (nicknamed the "Wacky Mack" on account of previous unorthodox exploits). Turner was not the man to run an operation by remote control. In crowded Rendova Harbor the Wacky Mack was hit and knocked out by Jap aircraft. Turner and his staff abandoned the slowly foundering ship, crawled over landing nets into a destroyer, dangling their uniforms on clothes hangers. But he got "that boy" on the beach without the loss of a single life. When it was over he commented sarcastically: "If you go in and can't handle...
Next, Turner invaded the Russells, northwest of Guadalcanal. That operation went more smoothly. The Japs had evacuated. On June 30th, with new equipment, new types of landing craft, he put the 43rd Division ashore on Rendova without the loss of a single life (although many lives were lost later and the final capture of Munda took weeks instead of days, as expected...
...great U.S. building jobs in World War II was the high-speed construction of the swarming fleets of landing craft for the Allied amphibious attacks on Sicily, Italy, Attu, Kiska and Rendova...
Through the dark, night-hung waters off Rendova Island in the Solomons crept a sleek Navy PT boat, hoping for a crack at Japanese shipping. Suddenly shore batteries discovered the craft and opened...