Who is Horst von der Goltz from Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War and what is their importance? "Goodbye

Horst von der Goltz attended Maine University with the class of 1943 and intended to become a professor of political science. He led a flamethrower team against a Japanese prepared position on Sugar Loaf Hill when the flamethrower operator was killed by a sniper. Von der Goltz had not been trained on the flamethrower but nevertheless strapped on the weapon and advanced against the enemy. He triggered the device without leaning into it, and the substantive recoil threw him over on his back, where he was saturated with fuel and cremated.