Minor Conquest

Last week the Navy announced an old and minor conquest: on Feb. 21, U.S.forces followed the vanquished Japs on to the Russell Islands, a grouplet lying 60 miles northwest of Guadalcanal's Henderson Field. Jap naval units had used Sunlight Channel (which splits the two main islands in the group) as deep-water anchorage; the Navy presumably finds the channel similarly useful now, and there are sites for advanced airports.

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