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Rabaul and the psychological collapse of Japanese soldiers in World War II

Rabaul and the Psychological Collapse of Japanese Soldiers in World War II examines the devastating impact of the American island-hopping strategy on the Japanese garrison at Rabaul. Cut off from ...
Smithsonian Magazine

More than 70 Years Later, Rabaul’s Aerial Battleground Is Still Haunting

I was well acquainted with Rabaul long before I went there. As a space shuttle astronaut in the 1990s, I had looked down from Earth orbit on the active volcanoes at this Papua New Guinea site on the ...