Word: vila
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varsity summaries: Salaun (W) defeated Henry Foster (H), 3-2; Hugh Foster (H) defeated Jones (W), 3-0; McKittrick (H) defeated Travis (W), 3-0; Clark (H) defeated Price (W), 3-0; Nawn (H) defeated Carney (W), 3-0; Heath (H) defeated Vila (W), 3-0; Cabot (H) defeated Robinson (W), 3-0; Fischelis (H) defeated Ackerly (W), 3-0; Plimpton (H) defeated Peters...
...defeated A. Foster (H) 3-2; Wightman (H) defeated Capney (W) 3-1; Stevens (H) defeated Stillman (W) 3-0; Heath (H) defeated Newberry (W) 3-1; McGovern (H) defeated Lutz (W) 3_1; McKittrick (H) defeated Conin (W) 3-0; H. Foster (H) defeated Travis (W) 3-0; Vila (W) defeated Emerson (H) 3-1; Mead (H) defeated Gregory...
...Helena steamed on to her destiny. She pounded enemy airfields, troop areas, shore batteries. Down in her log went names now legendary: Munda, Vila, Kolombangara, Enogai Inlet, Bairoko Harbor. Finally came the Battle of Kula Gulf, a turning point which cost the Jap something between nine and eleven cruisers and destroyers. It cost the U.S. one ship: the Helena...
...cruiser was part of the first task force to bombard Munda and Vila," he said in an interview soon after his arrival at Harvard. "We also were the first to venture 300 miles north of Guadalcanal...
...likely that U.S. soldiers will be thrown into an amphibious assault on Vila. Soft, mucky, much-bombed Vila Airfield is of no use to anyone. The Japs there, hemmed in and immobilized, may be left to starve to death. Said a Navy officer: "It may be necessary for us eventually to go in and bury their dead...