The Allied invasion of New Georgia began on June 30, 1943, when a large part of the U.S. Army™s 43rd Infantry Division landed at Rendova Island. During the night of July 4“5, as the 43rd Infantry Division™s main drive against Munda got underway, a force of U.S. Marine Raiders and a U.S. Army infantry battalion were landed at Rice Anchorage, in northwestern New Georgia.