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60th ANNIVERSARY OF THE PIVOTAL ATTACK ON RABAUL

PART TWO

For nearly two years Rabaul had been the southeastern subcapital of Japan's ambitious Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, which was slowly growing less great and decidedly unprosperous.

With the capture of Bougainville by Adm. Halsey's South Pacific forces in November 1943, and the occupation of Finschhafen at New Guinea by Gen. MacArthur's Southwest Pacific forces, Rabaul suddenly found itself on the front line of a war that had so recently been moving in the opposite direction hundreds of miles to the south and east. The huge ...

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