Medals of Honor on New Georgia
31st July 1943: Awards for outstanding heroism in separate actions as the US Army push forward to take the strategically important Munda airfield
In the Solomon Islands, the US had launched their campaign to take the New Georgia group (Operation Toenails) a month earlier, on the 30th June. Determined, often suicidal, resistance from the Japanese had forced the US to bring in fresh Divisions before they could attempt to take the mai…
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