As the Allies clawed their way up the Solomons and through New Guinea, Rabaul inspired both dread and determination, for without knocking it out the Allied advance was threatened. including rare photographs THE ALLIED NEUTRALIZATION OF RABAUL from PEN & SWORD presents the campaign to remove the Rabaul thorn from the Allied side.
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