The White Ghost

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Seventy years after the Solomon Islands Campaign-that hard-fought duel between the Allies and Japanese forces on the doorstep of Australia-top secret documents are still being declassified after decades of mandated confidentiality.

Under the requirements of the Espionage Act (Title 50 of the US Code) certain US Navy and State Department reports and communications relating to the Solomon Islands Campaign have been sealed these many years. Through Executive Order 13536 (Sections 1.4 and 3.7) some of those documents were recently declassified and made available through government archives.

Now, the story of how Billy Boyle came to journey to the South Pacific in 1943 can finally be told.

Astute readers may have noted Billy’s absence between the invasion of Sicily (Blood Alone), which occurred in July 1943, and his appearance in Jerusalem in November 1943, before being sent on assignment to Northern Ireland, as recounted in Evil for Evil.

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