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With the 41st Division in the Southwest Pacific - A Foot Soldier's Story (Hardcover)
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With the 41st Division in the Southwest Pacific - A Foot Soldier's Story (Hardcover)
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"[W]e began our advance toward the Mokmer Airstrip. . . . The road
climbed a ridge 15 or 20 feet high and we found ourselves on a flat
coral plateau sparsely covered by small trees and scrub growth. . .
. As we moved westward along the road, two of our destroyers were
sailing abreast of the lead elements of the advancing column. The
first indication of trouble was the roar of heavy artillery shells
sailing over our heads . . . aimed at our destroyers. . . . Shortly
after that our forward movement stopped, and we heard heavy firing
from the head of the column. . . . As we waited, we began to hear
heavy fire from the rear. . . . We were cut off and surrounded!" In
the enormous literature of the Second World War, there are
surprisingly few accounts of fighting in the southwest Pacific,
fewer still by common infantrymen. This memoir, written with a
simple and direct honesty that is rare indeed, follows a foot
soldier's career from basic training to mustering out. It takes the
reader into the jungles and caves of New Guinea and the Philippines
during the long campaign to win the war against Japan. From basic
training at Camp Roberts through combat, occupation, and the long
journey home, Francis Catanzaro's account tells of the excitement,
misery, cruelty, and terror of combat, and of the uneasy boredom of
jungle camp life. A member of the famed 41st Infantry Brigade, the
"Jungleers," Catanzaro saw combat at Hollandia, Biak, Zamboanga,
and Mindanao. He was a part of the Japanese occupation force and
writes with feeling about living among his former enemies and of
the decision to drop the atom bomb. With the 41st Division in the
Southwest Pacific is a powerful, gritty, and moving narrative of
the life of a soldier during some of the most difficult fighting of
World War II.
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