BATTLE OF BOMBOE
JAPANESE TRICKS FAIL SYDNEY, Sept. 22. Uniforms stuffed with straw were used by Japanese in an attempt to lure Americans into machine-gun ambushes in the Battle of Bomboe, in the Solomons, says a Sydney Sun correspondent! Bomboe is a village on Arundel Island, which is between New Georgia and Kolombangara. The battle was fought for 10 days in dense jungle and mangrove swamps. The Japanese used all their tricks, but the Americans, who had captured Rendova hear by and had traversed the trail to Munda, knew the answers. They split up into small units, inliltrated into the Japanesc«positions, and wiped the enemy out group by group.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21212, 29 September 1943, Page 3
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