This island of vital strategic importance for the ongoing campaign by the IJA and IJN to secure the Solomons supplied from Rabaul conducted numerous raids against Guadalcanal and other US targets.
IJA convoys where escorted and their squadrons fought back USAAF and USN raids and strikes against their positions as far as Rabaul until 1943 when the US marines and army invaded the island and the Seabees set to work on the three captured airbases Torokina, Kahili and Buka.
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IJA convoys where escorted and their squadrons fought back USAAF and USN raids and strikes against their positions as far as Rabaul until 1943 when the US marines and army invaded the island and the Seabees set to work on the three captured airbases Torokina, Kahili and Buka.
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