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Japanese troops starve as they retreat

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

Aug 3, 2023
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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 …

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