On Christmas, only ten days after the landing at Arawe (TIME, Dec. 27), General Douglas MacArthur sent forth his second invasion fleet to New Britain, Jap rampart island in the Southwest Pacific.
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Rabaul and the psychological collapse of Japanese soldiers in World War II
Rabaul and the Psychological Collapse of Japanese Soldiers in World War II examines the devastating impact of the American island-hopping strategy on the Japanese garrison at Rabaul. Cut off from ...
While its primary focus is on air operations in the Solomons, it also covers in some detail the naval and ground battles of the 1942 Guadalcanal campaign, but only briefly treats those of the 1943 ...
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