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31-05-2015, 22:29

Carlson's Marine Raiders: Makin Island 1942

Carlson's Marine Raiders: Makin Island 1942
Author: Gordon L. Rottman
Carlson's Marine Raiders: Makin Island 1942
Osprey Publishing
Osprey Raid 44
ISBN: 1472803272
2014
Format: PDF (e-book)
Pages: 81
Size: 4 Mb
Language: English

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.

Carlson's Marine Raiders: Makin Island 1942

 

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