Up The Slot: Marines in the Central Solomons
Charles D. Melson
Read by Aaron Bennett
In December that year (1942), patrol flights taking off from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal and from the decks of U.S. fleet carriers in the waters around the Solomon Islands discovered the Japanese hard at work on a well-camouflaged airfield at Munda on the northern end of New Georgia. This new field posed a definite threat to the Allies still fighting to wrest Guadalcanal from the enemy. It had to be taken, or at the very least, neutralized. U.S. pilots also reported another field being completed on Kolombangara across the Kula Gulf from New Georgia. In response to these potential threats, Operation Toenails, landings in the New Georgia Islands in the Central Solomons with the capture of Munda as the primary objective, were planned, scheduled, and mounted. - Summary by Charles D. Melson (1 hr 42 min)
Chapters
| Chapter 1 - Up the Slot: Marines in the Central Solomons | 28:26 | Read by Aaron Bennett |
| Chapter 2, Part 1 - The Munda Drive and the Fighting Ninth | 24:11 | Read by Aaron Bennett |
| Chapter 2, Part 2 - The Munda Drive and the Fighting Ninth | 24:52 | Read by Aaron Bennett |
| Chapter 3 - Milk Runs and Black Sheep | 21:00 | Read by Aaron Bennett |
| Chapter 4 - A Joint Pattern for Victory | 3:42 | Read by Aaron Bennett |