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Japan fortifies the island of Rabaul in the Solomon Islands. They use this base to attack
Allied shipping, airfields, ports and anything else that comes in their paths. The Americans
counter by taking Guadalcanal first and then Googanville. The 3rd Marines land there and take
control in 5 weeks of hard fighting. Then the Army engineers only take 5 days to build another
airfield to help in cutting off the Japanese on Rabaul. The allies continue this practice as
Rabaul is completely cutoff and ultimately destroyed. Just another notch in the chain of advancement
towards Tokyo.
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