Navy Secretary Ray Mabus announced today that the next amphibious assault ship would be named after Bougainville island in the Solomons, the location of a strategic World War II battle. LHA-8 will be ...
When Staff Sgt. Jesse Ray Drowley arrived alone at an American camp on the Solomon Islands with a gaping wound in his chest, a missing eye and a shredded uniform, a junior officer threatened to ...
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When America Took Revenge
It’s April 18th, 1943 and a squadron of P-38s races low over the waves of the Pacific, off the coast of Bougainville Island, modern day Papua New Guinea. In the formation 1st Lieutenant Rex Barber and ...
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