Word: roko
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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Cleanup. At week's end on New Georgia only a small Jap detachment at Bai-roko Harbor was still to be done in, but victorious units from Munda moved for ward to help in the job. Army engineers and Navy Seabees prepared to restore the 4,000-ft. Munda airstrip, which would bring the U.S. just within fighter-plane range of Rabaul. Eyes turned to Vila, Munda's supplementary airstrip 17 miles away, huddled against the great cone of Kolombangara. That the Japs were determined to cling to Vila was evident when they once more took the impossible...
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