The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March And the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South Pacific
“By the time Horii reached the village of Myola, his men were manifesting symptoms of beriberi, typhus, dysentery, colitis, and malaria, for which many didn’t even have quinine. Others were slowed to a virtual crawl by jungle rot.
Lieutenant Sakamoto wrote angrily, “It is damp and dark here in the thick woods. We have no more than a handful of rice left. If we are to remain until the end, we will all die from beriberi. What is the Army doing?”
As they grew sicker, soldiers watched, with a growin...g bitterness, their officers “endeavoring to evade hardships.” Some rode horses and hoarded food while ordinary soldiers walked and starved, eating grass, roots, leaves, a few grains of rice they found in the dirt and mud, the flesh of dead horses, and anything else they could scrounge along the way.
Days later, Sakamoto was diagnosed with beriberi and feared that he would not be able to go on. “Cruel nature,” he wrote, “God take us to Paradise. Each day, we are nearing our death.”MoreLess
Lieutenant Sakamoto wrote angrily, “It is damp and dark here in the thick woods. We have no more than a handful of rice left. If we are to remain until the end, we will all die from beriberi. What is the Army doing?”
As they grew sicker, soldiers watched, with a growin...g bitterness, their officers “endeavoring to evade hardships.” Some rode horses and hoarded food while ordinary soldiers walked and starved, eating grass, roots, leaves, a few grains of rice they found in the dirt and mud, the flesh of dead horses, and anything else they could scrounge along the way.
Days later, Sakamoto was diagnosed with beriberi and feared that he would not be able to go on. “Cruel nature,” he wrote, “God take us to Paradise. Each day, we are nearing our death.”MoreLess
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