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The campaign on New Britain [by] Frank O. Hough, USMCR [and] John A. Crown, USMCR. by United States. Marine Corps is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The campaign on New Britain [by] Frank O. Hough, USMCR [and] John A. Crown, USMCR. about?
The truth is that nothing was easy on New Britain. Jungle, swamp and mountain combined with atrocious weather to multiply problems of time and space. Then, too, the Japanese held an inestimable advantage in their familiarity with the terrain -- an advantage which they exploited with no little skill. It took maneuver on our part to cope with this phalanx of difficulties, and before the fighting ended it had sprawled over more territory than any other Marine campaign of the war. There is no such thing as a "light" casualty list, and more than 300 Marines paid with their lives in New Britain's fetid jungle. But viewed in the light of numbers engaged, ground gained, and enemy losses, it was not a costly victory. On the contrary, the fighting that ranged from Cape Gloucester to Talasea ranks as one of the most economical operations in the entire Pacific. - Foreword
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- United States. Marine Corps
- Publisher
- Historical Division, Headquarters, U. S. Marine Corps, 1952.
- Published
- 1952
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction