Carlson's Marine Raiders
Makin Island 1942
On August 17-18, 1942, 211 men of the US Marine Corps' 2nd Raider Battalion conducted a daring amphibious raid on the Japanese-occupied Makin Island in the South Pacific. This ambitious but flawed operation was intended to divert Japanese reinforcements bound for Guadalcanal, over 1,000 miles to the southwest, in the wake of the US landings there ten days earlier; the Raiders were to destroy the seaplane base and radio station, take prisoners, and collect intelligence. Although yielding limited results, it was to be an invaluable test of the innovative training and tactics employed by the Raiders, and a crucial boost to national morale at thi…
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Weitere Autoren: Shumate, Johnny (Illustr.) / Stacey, Mark (Illustr.) / Palmer, Ian (Illustr.) / Gilliland, Alan (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4728-0329-0
- EAN: 9781472803290
- Produktnummer: 17913119
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 80 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 11'015 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 40 b/w; 17 col
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Gordon L. Rottman entered the US Army in 1967, volunteered for Special Forces and completed training as a weapons specialist. He served in the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam in 1969-70 and subsequently in airborne infantry, long-range patrol and intelligence assignments until retiring after 26 years. He was a Special Operations Forces scenario writer at the Joint Readiness Training Center for 12 years and is now a freelance writer, living in Texas.
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