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Pacific, the island of new georgia had been seized from the japanese. Munlda has a reputation for being a malaria hell hole. What was it like . Miserable. Terrible. Did you get malaria . No. I got hepatitis. It was nice, because it was the first time i really saw those nurses, giving alcohol back rubs and all that stuff. At munda, the only females they saw were the insects and i will and liz sards. The welcoming committee arrived at 0100 in the form of a bombing raid. They would send bombers at night to drop bombs on the americans so they couldnt sleep. Three times that evening alone. By 0400, the exhausted squadron was out on the flight line for another days run. Ed harper earned himself the nickname the mole for his ability to dig into the side of his foxhole. He would soon learn another. The nickname was the sleeve. The sleeve was a target that the aerial planes pooled. Boyington gave me that title after i got shot up the first time. It was october 17th. The black sheep were over th ....