From Makin to Bougainville: Marine Raiders in The Pacific War
by Jon T. Hoffman
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About this eBook
- Author
- Hoffman, Jon T., 1955-
- Title
- From Makin to Bougainville: Marine Raiders in the Pacific War
- Credits
- Produced by Brian Coe, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- D731: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War II (1939-1945)
- Subject
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Amphibious operations
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 48811
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48811
- Release Date
- April 27, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.Contents — From Makin to Bougainville: Marine Raiders in The Pacific War
- 3.From Makin to Bougainville: Marine Raiders in the Pacific War
- 4.Creating the Raiders
- 5.Major General Merritt A. Edson, USMC
- 6.Brigadier General Evans F. Carlson, USMC
- 7.Destroyer Transports
- 8.Shaping the Raiders
- 9.Getting to the Fight
- 10.Makin
- 11.Tulagi
- 12.Tasimboko
- 13.Edson’s Ridge
- 14.Matanikau
- 15.Raider Weapons and Equipment
- 16.The Long Patrol
- 17.The Raider Training Center
- 18.Reshaping the Raiders
- 19.New Georgia
- 20.The Raider Patch
- 21.Enogai
- 22.Bairoko
- 23.Bougainville
- 24.The Raider Legacy
- 25.Sources
- 26.About the Author — ERRATA
- 27.Transcriber’s Notes
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