US Marine Corps - The Black Vault

580 Ampbibiuns Came To Conqaer
By and large, the purposes of the landing were not accomplished, since reinforcements
from Kolombangara were continuous until the last days of the
siege of Munda. When that flow ended, the Munda defenders slithered out
to the west to little Baanga Island and then on to big Arundel Island, and
from thence the 1,200 yards to Kolombangara.
The mission of the Northern Landing Group was to embark 2,600 Marines
and Army troops at Guadalcanal and to land them at Rice Anchorage. The
Escort Group Commander was Rear Admiral Ainsworth, CTG 36.1, and
the Landing Force Commander was Colonel Harry B. Liversedge, USMC.
The Transport Group Commander was Commander Stanley Leith. CTF 31
had Airected that all transports must leave the Transport Area by 0700 on 5
July, .n order to reduce the chance of daylight air raids during the return
to base. The converted transports could make only 23 knots since they had
but two boilers.”
The twelve ships making up the Transport Unit were of three different
types, seven destroyer transports, two destroyer minesweepers and three
RICE ANCHORAGE
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Rice Anchorage on the northwest coast of New Georgia Island.
m (a) CTG 36.1 Op Order 10-43, 1 JuI. 1943; (b) CTF 31020242, 020422, 020556, JuL
1943; (c) CTG 31.1 Op Order, AI I–43, 10 Jul. 1943.