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Our Jungle Road to Tokyo
ISBN-13:
9781387911073
Veröffentl:
2018
Einband:
EPUB
Seiten:
274
Autor:
Robert L. Eichelberger
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
"e;Take Buna, Bob, or don't come back alive."e;- Douglas MacArthur to Robert Eichelberger.Our Jungle Road to Tokyo is the dazzling account of how US and Allied forces overcame incredible odds to rout invading Japanese from entrenched positions deep in the mountain jungles of Papua New Guinea. Battles take place in swamps, impassable vegetation, coconut plantations with invisible snipers buried in tree roots, hillsides riddled with pill-boxes and maze-like underground bunkers impervious to artillery and mortar.*Annotated edition with footnotes*Includes photographs of main personages, images from the Buna Campaign and more.
"e;Take Buna, Bob, or don't come back alive."e;- Douglas MacArthur to Robert Eichelberger.Our Jungle Road to Tokyo is the dazzling account of how US and Allied forces overcame incredible odds to rout invading Japanese from entrenched positions deep in the mountain jungles of Papua New Guinea. Battles take place in swamps, impassable vegetation, coconut plantations with invisible snipers buried in tree roots, hillsides riddled with pill-boxes and maze-like underground bunkers impervious to artillery and mortar.*Annotated edition with footnotes*Includes photographs of main personages, images from the Buna Campaign and more.