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Marines storm ashore a rainforest-bound, diseased-filled, swampy death trap of an island

to take an airfield with no strategic value.

Sources:

Bernard Nalty. The Green Inferno.

Frank Hough. The Campaign on New Britain

John Miller. History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II. Volume II: Isolation of Rabaul

Al Hemingway. The Incessant Rains of the Green Inferno. WWII History Volume 9, No. 7

Sidney Phillips. The Fighting Conditions on Cape Gloucester. (video interview) https://marinesidphillips.com/sid-phillips-on-capegloucester.htm