After several months of miserable fighting in the jungles there, he was sent to a rest camp on the island of Pavuvu. From there, in the summer of 1944, Phillips was rotated back to the United ...

But General MacArthur got his airfield. The 1st had another period of recuperation (on a nightmarish island called Pavuvu, which had been picked as a “rest area” in one of the war’s major ...

Later on, in a camp on Pavuvu, Leckie is found having wet his bed again. He is moved to a military psychiatric hospital on a ...

His field experience has taken him to Cape Gloucester, China, Cuba, Guadalcanal, Japan, Korea, New Britain Island, New Guinea, Pavuvu, the Philippines, the Russell Islands, the Solomon Islands and ...