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After 23 days and nights of fighting in the dark jungles of New Britain, these marines are going to get a rest. Waiting at Cape Gloucester for all the men of their unit to climb aboard the trucks that will carry them to the rear, they have the marks of front-line fighters bitten deep in their faces.
YANK 31 March 1944