New guinea fighting combined the worst aspects of jungle and mountain combat. Mountains are on par with the alps, rainfall that is as heavy as you will find anywhere. This was like no place they had ever been before or even heard of. The climbing that these people had to do broke the spirits of so many of them.
Can suicidal bravery and fanatical determination make up for material, industrial and numerical insufficiency? As the Asia-Pacific conflict turns against the Japanese these questions are put to the test. The results are nightmarish.