Front cover image for Shots fired in anger : a rifleman's-eye view of the activities on the Island of Guadalcanal, in the Solomons, during the elimination of the Japanese forces there by the American Army under General Patch whose troops included the 132nd Infantry of the Illinois National Guard, a combat unit of the Americal Division ...

Shots fired in anger : a rifleman's-eye view of the activities on the Island of Guadalcanal, in the Solomons, during the elimination of the Japanese forces there by the American Army under General Patch whose troops included the 132nd Infantry of the Illinois National Guard, a combat unit of the Americal Division ...

This is the story of the Guadalcanal campaign as only a rifleman can tell it. Lieutenant Colonel John B. George recounts his brutal experiences in frontline jungle warfare and examines the weapons, tactics, equipment, and combat mentalities that won and lost the fight

Print Book, English, ©2012
Canton Street Press, Buford, GA, ©2012