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Jungle Fighters - A Firsthand Account of the Forgotten New Guinea Campaign (Hardcover)
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Jungle Fighters - A Firsthand Account of the Forgotten New Guinea Campaign (Hardcover)
Series: Jules Archer History for Young Readers
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In the early stages of the Pacific War, General Douglas MacArthur
was expected to prevent the Japanese from taking Australia. With
limited forces, MacArthur had to be tactical, and the key to the
continent's defense was the island of New Guinea, just above the
northeast tip of Australia. In order to defend New Guinea,
MacArthur sent a small task force to Milne Bay, where the Coral Sea
rounded the southeast tip of the island. His plan: to establish an
airfield base for bomber and fighter planes that could attack enemy
invasion convoys as they rounded the tip of New Guinea to attack
Australia. In the fall of 1941, at the age of twenty-six, Jules
Archer joined the US Armed Forces. A few months later, he joined
MacArthur as a member of the small task force being sent to New
Guinea. With good reason not to expect to return alive, Archer and
his troop were plunged into a new kind of war. They fought in a
jungle among a primitive Melanesian people, some tribes of which
were headhunters. For nearly four years they endured in the distant
jungle. This is an inside look at one of the lesser-known stories
of one of the worst wars the world has known. It's a story of the
absurdities, fears, camaraderie, and even humor of life as a
wartime solider.
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