The Saga of World War 2: a Casus Belli Project · Cassus Belli Guy
Closing the Vice
March 15, 2023·26 min·2 clips
As dawn broke, Marines saw Mount Talawe brooding over troops, its lush slopes imposing and ominous.
As heard by us
A measured account of how Rabaul was boxed in and how the island fighting fed MacArthur's push toward the Philippines.
This episode follows the isolation of Rabaul in the Bismarck Islands and then moves through the fighting on New Britain and the Admiralty Islands into early 1944.
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Rabaul wraps up, and the road toward the Philippines opens one island at a time.
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