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...from his strategic air and naval base at Rabaul, apex of a triangle, the Jap looked down anxiously on Munda. Its coral airfield had been repaired and was in operation as a fighter base. It was being used already against Rabaul's outpost, Bougainville, which the U.S. might conceivably by-pass as it had Kolombangara...
...Terry, member of Dade County's School Board. Last week he got the Board to order the trial of a c.o. for incompetence. The accused: Edward O. Schweitzer, science teacher at Ada Merritt Junior High, 35-year-old Scoutmaster and Y.M.C.A. club leader of Coral Gables. Heavyset, aggressive Terry, a veteran of World War I, American Legionnaire, Mason, Elk and lawyer, argued that Schweitzer, who has been teaching for more than a decade, has "unfitted himself as a teacher by his beliefs" about pacifism...
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...
Artillerymen chose positions. Within two hours of landing they were shelling Jap positions at the attack's main objective - Munda airfield on New Georgia, six miles away across a tortuous, coral-pocked channel...
...offensive, but it had two parts. One part, directly under General Douglas MacArthur, was aimed at the Japanese positions in northern New Guinea (first Salamaua, then Lae) and at the island gateway between the Pacific proper and its southern satellite, the Coral Sea. The other part, though planned by General MacArthur, was under the immediate command of Admiral Halsey. His Naval, Marine and Army forces aimed at Munda, a Japanese air base and army station on New Georgia Island, some 200 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. On the approach to Munda, the Americans first took the outlying island of Rendova...