Operation TOENAILS-New Georgia

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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This week Seth and Bill dig into one of the lesser-known, but no less important, campaigns of 1943...New Georgia. The island of New Georgia and its invaluable Munda airfield was considered a vital step in the march up the Solomons chain in 1943. Initial advances made good on plans, but stubborn Japanese defenses and ill-prepared American infantry turned the advance into a slog. New Georgia provided valuable lessons in training and tactics for the fights that would come soon.

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to episode 209 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:18.7	My name is Seth Parrottared and historian and deputy director
0:21.0	of the mississippi armed forces museum here at camp shelby and with me as always is my esteemed
0:25.4	co-host retired navy captain bill toady former skipper of the fast attack submarine u s indianapolis
0:30.7	common ore submarine squad and three of pearl harbor and many other assignments how are you this
0:34.9	morning bill i'm doing well seth and and getting the house more set up. So little by little, we're getting.
0:43.3	Yeah, that's never a fun task, and I wish you all the good luck in the world.
0:50.4	Thank you.
0:51.9	So this week, Bill and I are going to dive into a campaign that is, at least in my opinion, has the best name in the Pacific War, that being toenails.
1:03.0	All joking aside, toenails was the code name for the campaign in and around the island of New Georgia.
1:09.8	Campaign from New Georgia and the land battles that
1:12.1	were a part of it were among the first major offenses undertaken by the Allies in the Solomon
1:17.1	since Guadalcanal had officially been declared as secure in February 1943. New Georgia was also the
1:23.3	first time that the combined leadership team of Admiral William F. Halsey and General Douglas
1:27.3	MacArthur, a very unlikely duo, unleashed itself on the Japanese. The ultimate goal of the New
1:34.2	Georgia campaign was the capture of, wait for it, no surprise here, an airfield that the Japanese
1:39.7	were using at Monday, or building and then using at Munda Point. The reasoning behind this was that
1:45.8	by capturing the airfield at Munda and turning in against its builders, the airfield would
1:51.3	thereby provide further aerial support for the eventual invasion of Bougainville and further reduce
1:56.1	the Japanese presence at the almighty base of Rabaul. The fighting in and around New Georgia would see the deployment
2:02.5	of several joint United States Army, United States Marine Corps fighting formations and would prove
2:07.2	to be a sort of, well, proving ground for inter-service operations that would take place in the
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