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id: 48714
title: Cape Gloucester: The Green Inferno
author: Nalty, Bernard C.
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  Rupertus, Commanding General, 1st Marine Division, battalions of the 1st Marines were to follow up the assault on Cape infantry unit, the 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, reached Yellow Beach 1 at On New Britain, the 1st Marine Division fought weather and terrain, 3d Battalion, 1st Marines, moved ahead, Company I and the supporting 1st Marine Division landed on New Britain._] Company B, 1st Marine Tank Battalion, with At Cape Gloucester, the 1st Marine Division had an air force of its own The division''s air force landed at Cape Gloucester from LSTs on D-Day, Gayle, the new commander of the 2d Battalion, 5th Marines, who already Company K of Deakin''s 3d Battalion, 5th Marines, attacked on 11 March, ambush sprung by the 2d Battalion, 5th Marines, killed 20 Japanese and component of the Marine division--Company A, 1st Tank Battalion. the 1st Marine Division received two new weapons--the M4 medium tank,


