{"product_id":"2940148663492","title":"Defending the Driniumor: Covering Force Operations in New Guinea, 1944","description":"The purpose of this Leavenworth Paper is to integrate American and\u003cbr\u003eJapanese strategic, operational, tactical, and human dimensions into a\u003cbr\u003enarrative form. The focus is on the 112th Cavalry Regiment because that\u003cbr\u003eunit played a significant role in defeating a numerically superior Japanese\u003cbr\u003eforce that tried to outflank an American covering force. Official histories in\u003cbr\u003eboth English and Japanese languages illuminate the decision-making\u003cbr\u003eprocesses of the combatants at the strategic and operational levels that\u003cbr\u003eresulted in the deployment of men and their war-making equipment to the\u003cbr\u003eDriniumor. Ultra adds the intelligence dimension to American decision\u003cbr\u003emaking. At the tactical level, however, events are less clear. For the\u003cbr\u003epurposes of organization, three major engagements occurred along the\u003cbr\u003eDriniumor River in July and August 1944. On the night of lo-11 July\u003cbr\u003e1944, Japanese troops of the 18th Army broke through and overran\u003cbr\u003eAmerican covering force defenders an the Driniumor. An American counterattack\u003cbr\u003echaracterized by bitter fighting eventually sealed this penetration.\u003cbr\u003eThe third major battle-more correctly a series of company and platoon\u003cbr\u003elevel engagements lasting three weeks-raged around the south flank of\u003cbr\u003ethe American positions as the Japanese tried to turn the U.S. line. This\u003cbr\u003emore specific level is difficult to reconstruct with exaetitude because of the\u003cbr\u003econfused nature of jungle fighting when men only a few yards distant were\u003cbr\u003eout of sight and earshot. Small parties of Japanese and Americans fought\u003cbr\u003eand died in anonymity. Nevertheless, reference to contemporary military\u003cbr\u003ereports and war diaries makes it possible to impose a degree of order,\u003cbr\u003enecessarily arbitrary, on the operations and then to describe the fighting.","brand":"ReadCycle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111485194480,"sku":"2940148663492","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148663492_p0.jpg?v=1763706222","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148663492","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}