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Title
Muddy Mayhem
Description
Marine pioneers had constructed corduroy roads to bring forth armor and bulldozers to build fords across Suicide Creek. As soon as the ford was complete, the Marines began their assault across the stream and into the Japanese bunkers. The Marines escorted the Shermans forward and the Japanese reacted …
Publisher
Date
1944-01-04
Scenario#
J136
Scenario Description
Marine pioneers had constructed corduroy roads to bring forth armor and bulldozers to build fords across Suicide Creek. As soon as the ford was complete, the Marines began their assault across the stream and into the Japanese bunkers. The Marines escorted the Shermans forward and the Japanese reacted with everything available to them including individual soldiers with massive charges strapped to their bodies attempting to hurl themselves against the hulls of the American tanks.
Location
Cape Gloucester, New Britian
Battle Narrative
The Battle of Cape Gloucester was fought in the Pacific theater of World War II between Japanese and Allied forces on the island of New Britain, Territory of New Guinea, between 26 December 1943 and 16 January 1944. Codenamed Operation Backhander, the US landing formed part of the wider Operation Cartwheel, the main Allied strategy in the South West Pacific Area and Pacific Ocean Areas during 1943–1944. It was the second landing the US 1st Marine Division had conducted during the war thus far, after Guadalcanal. The objective of the operation was to capture the two Japanese airfields near Cape Gloucester that were defended by elements of the Japanese 17th Division.
Narrative Source
Combatants
American
Japanese
Additional Information
Scenario Type = Standard

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