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Description:Marines using machine guns and carbines push back a counterattack on their position on Cape Gloucester. The Japanese retreated into the jungle until they gathered what they felt was enough strength to counter attack. The Marines however soon had them in full retreat again. (National Archives, USMC 71,981).
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