I know damned well that the USN and USMC took Gavabutu and Levu-Vana
islands during WWII

Wasn't that the same campaign whose outcome was decided by the surface
action off Cape Titan?

--
Mike Kanze
(Whose arm muscles stay large from occasional femur-tugging.)

Thanks, in part, to Commander Eddington's heroic one-way scout mission.

AND Admiral Torre's brilliance.