Up The Slot: Marines in the Central Solomons: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Up The Slot: Marines in the Central Solomons, credited to Charles D. Melson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Up The Slot: Marines in the Central Solomons by Charles D. Melson. Read in English 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

Recording facts

• Recording title: Up The Slot: Marines in the Central Solomons
• Author credits: Charles D. Melson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 5
• Listed recording duration: 1:42:11

Catalogue topics

• wwii
• war in the pacific
• usmc
• pacific battles
• marines corps
• solomon islands

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter 1 - Up the Slot: Marines in the Central Solomons — 28:26
2. 02 - Chapter 2, Part 1 - The Munda Drive and the Fighting Ninth — 24:11
3. 03 - Chapter 2, Part 2 - The Munda Drive and the Fighting Ninth — 24:52
4. 04 - Chapter 3 - Milk Runs and Black Sheep — 21:00
5. 05 - Chapter 4 - A Joint Pattern for Victory — 3:42

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