Cape Gloucester: The Green Inferno

by Bernard C. Nalty

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1494462435
• ISBN13: 9781494462437
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 36 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"