1944 May 28 WWII Yank Magazine British Edition Second Battle of Bougainville FL4
1944 May 28 WWII Yank Magazine British Edition Second Battle of Bougainville FL4
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1944 May 28 WWII Yank Magazine British Edition Second Battle of Bougainville FL4
Isolated and facing starvation, the Jap forces launched a desperate assault against two seasoned U. S. divisions.
When the battle was over, 7,000 of the Japs were dead.
By Sgt. BARRETT McGURN, YANK Staff Correspondent
I MPRESS AUGUSTA BAY, BOUGAINVILLE, THE SOLoMoNS Battles are not like the ones E they show in the mov Bout anytake the Second st at as gar vite Was not. Not American soldiers, after all, are just civilians in uniform, who carry over to the battlefield many of their peacetime habits and points of view. The result is a strange melee of
the grim and the unconsciously comic.
Like thousands of other Jap soldiers on the by-passed Shortlands, Choiseul, Buka, New Britain and New Ireland, the Japs on Bougainville were faced with the choice of starving because their supply lines...
1944 May 28 WWII Yank Magazine British Edition Second Battle of Bougainville FL4
Isolated and facing starvation, the Jap forces launched a desperate assault against two seasoned U. S. divisions.
When the battle was over, 7,000 of the Japs were dead.
By Sgt. BARRETT McGURN, YANK Staff Correspondent
I MPRESS AUGUSTA BAY, BOUGAINVILLE, THE SOLoMoNS Battles are not like the ones E they show in the mov Bout anytake the Second st at as gar vite Was not. Not American soldiers, after all, are just civilians in uniform, who carry over to the battlefield many of their peacetime habits and points of view. The result is a strange melee of
the grim and the unconsciously comic.
Like thousands of other Jap soldiers on the by-passed Shortlands, Choiseul, Buka, New Britain and New Ireland, the Japs on Bougainville were faced with the choice of starving because their supply lines...
