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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...
Both Air Forces and Navy were out looking for trouble. But the wide-ranging bombers met little Jap interception. The Jap was having difficulty mustering enough aircraft for his own purposes. The flights he was able to put over Rendova during the week dwindled gradually, did little damage...
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...