Cape Gloucester: The Green Inferno


Read by Aaron Bennett

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…steeled themselves as they waited for daylight and the signal to assault the Yellow Beaches near Cape Gloucester in the northwestern part of the island. - Summary by Bernard C. Nalty

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Chapter 1 - Cape Gloucester: The Green Inferno; MacArthur's Marines; Sidebars 18:57 Read by Aaron Bennett
Chapter 2 - The Japanese in Western New Britain; Establishing the Beachhead; Sidebars 19:30 Read by Aaron Bennett
Chapter 3 - The Capture of the Cape Gloucester Airfields 8:54 Read by Aaron Bennett
Chapter 4 - Clearing the Shores of Borgen Bay; Sidebars 15:55 Read by Aaron Bennett
Chapter 5 - The Mopping-up Begins in the West 21:24 Read by Aaron Bennett
Chapter 6 - The Landings at Volupai 14:23 Read by Aaron Bennett
Chapter 7 - Final Combat and Relief; Sidebar 16:21 Read by Aaron Bennett