The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South Pacific (47 page)

Copyright © 2007 by James Campbell

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

Harold Ober Associates: Excerpt from “Sunday: New Guinea” from
Poems of a Jew
by Karl Shapiro, copyright © 1943 by Karl Shapiro, copyright renewed 1971 by Karl Shapiro.

Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates.

Title page art: U.S. Army Archive

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Campbell, James.

The Ghost Mountain boys: their epic march and the terrifying battle for New Guinea—the forgotten war of the South Pacific / James Campbell.—1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 126th—History. 2. World War, 1939–1945—Regimental histories—United States. 3. World War, 1939–1945—Campaigns—Papua New Guinea. I. Title.

D769.31126th .C36 2007

940.54'2653—dc22                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  2007013140

Interior and endpaper map illustrations by Jackie Aher

eISBN: 978-0-307-40743-6

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