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Cape Gloucester - The Green Inferno (Paperback)
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Cape Gloucester - The Green Inferno (Paperback)
Series: Marines in World War II Commemorative
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Loot Price R282
Discovery Miles 2 820
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On the early morning of 26 December 1943, Marines poised off the
coast of Japanese-held New Britain could barely make out the
mile-high bulk of Mount Talawe against a sky growing light with the
approach of dawn. Flame billowed from the guns of American and
Australian cruisers and destroyers, shattering the early morning
calm. The men of the 1st Marine Division, commanded by Major
General William H. Rupertus, a veteran of expeditionary duty in
Haiti and China and of the recently concluded Guadalcanal campaign,
steeled themselves as they waited for daylight and the signal to
assault the Yellow Beaches near Cape Gloucester in the northwestern
part of the island. For 90 minutes, the fire support ships blazed
away, trying to neutralize whole areas rather than destroy pinpoint
targets, since dense jungle concealed most of the individual
fortifications and supply dumps. After the day dawned and H-Hour
drew near, Army airmen joined the preliminary bombardment.
Four-engine Consolidated Liberator B-24 bombers, flying so high
that the Marines offshore could barely see them, dropped 500-pound
bombs inland of the beaches, scoring a hit on a fuel dump at the
Cape Gloucester airfield complex and igniting a fiery geyser that
leapt hundreds of feet into the air. Twin-engine North American
Mitchell B-25 medium bombers and Douglas Havoc A-20 light bombers,
attacking from lower altitude, pounced on the only Japanese
antiaircraft gun rash enough to open fire. Cape Gloucester: the
Green Inferno is a narrative of the activities of the Marine Corps.
Official records and appropriate historical works were used in
compiling this chronicle, which is published for the information of
those interested in the history of Cape Gloucester.
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