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Operation Backhander |The WWII Battle Where Jungle Killed More Than Bullets
Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/World-War-Pacific-Campaigns-Guadalcanal-ebook/dp/B0949C9YSS
Operation Backhander—the Allied assault on Cape Gloucester in December 1943—doesn't get the recognition of Iwo Jima or Guadalcanal.
But the Marines who fought there faced some of the worst conditions of World War II.This wasn't just fighting the Japanese. This was fighting rain, mud, disease, and jungle so thick you couldn't see 10 feet ahead. The Battle of Suicide Creek.
Securing airfields to neutralize Rabaul. The birth of MacArthur's island-hopping strategy that would define the Pacific War.Cape Gloucester proved that sometimes terrain is deadlier than the enemy.
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By Daniel WrinnGet the book: https://www.amazon.com/World-War-Pacific-Campaigns-Guadalcanal-ebook/dp/B0949C9YSS
Operation Backhander—the Allied assault on Cape Gloucester in December 1943—doesn't get the recognition of Iwo Jima or Guadalcanal.
But the Marines who fought there faced some of the worst conditions of World War II.This wasn't just fighting the Japanese. This was fighting rain, mud, disease, and jungle so thick you couldn't see 10 feet ahead. The Battle of Suicide Creek.
Securing airfields to neutralize Rabaul. The birth of MacArthur's island-hopping strategy that would define the Pacific War.Cape Gloucester proved that sometimes terrain is deadlier than the enemy.