Cape Gloucester: The Green Inferno

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Dec 19, 2024

In Category - War & Military

Authors: Bernard C. Nalty In Year : 2015

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Cape Gloucester: The Green Inferno

Chapter 1 - Cape Gloucester: The Green Inferno; MacArthur's Marines; Sidebars
Chapter 2 - The Japanese in Western New Britain; Establishing the Beachhead; Sidebars
Chapter 3 - The Capture of the Cape Gloucester Airfields
Chapter 4 - Clearing the Shores of Borgen Bay; Sidebars
Chapter 5 - The Mopping-up Begins in the West
Chapter 6 - The Landings at Volupai
Chapter 7 - Final Combat and Relief; Sidebar

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…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. - Summary by Bernard C. Nalty