Japanese troops starve as they retreat

3rd August 1943:Japanese soldiers remain determined to resist despite knowing that their position is hopeless

Japanese soldiers on the Solomon Islands. they had been pushed back ever since the American landings on Guadalcanal a year earlier.

In New Georgia on the Soloman Islands a Japanese private soldier found himself thrown into a campaign that had already been lost. He and his companions from the 23rd Infantry Regiment had been landed on Baanga Island, where …