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Author Wiles, Tripp

Title Forgotten raiders of '42 : the fate of the Marines left behind on Makin / Tripp Wiles
Edition 1st ed
Published Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 169 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Series Potomac's military controversies
Military controversies.
Contents The raiders -- The raid -- Conflicting reports -- The left behind -- Victors' justice -- Pacific heroes -- Carlson and Roosevelt after the raid -- The search for the forgotten raiders -- A search through history -- The interpreters -- Good news
Summary On October 16, 1942, on Kwajalein Atoll, at the fringe of the Japanese Empire, members of the Imperial Japanese Navy's 6th Base Unit ceremonially beheaded nine Marines from the 2nd Raider Battalion. The captives held no hopes for pardon or for rescue as they walked blindfolded, one by one, to the spot of execution, which also became their burial site. The Marine Corps and their families already thought they were dead, the men knew. Forgotten Raiders of '42 is the account of how these volunteer patriots, unbeknownst to their command, were inadvertently left behind after the Marines' raid on Maki
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-160) and index
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Subject United States. Marine Corps. Marine Raider Battalion, 2nd.
SUBJECT United States. Marine Corps. Marine Raider Battalion, 2nd fast
USA Marine Corps gnd
Subject Makin Atoll, Raid on, Kiribati, 1942.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Amphibious operations.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Kiribati -- Makin Atoll
Prisoners of war -- United States -- Death
Prisoners of war -- Kiribati -- Makin Atoll -- Death
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
Military operations, Amphibious
Atrocities
Kriegsgefangener
Kiribati
Kiribati -- Makin Atoll
United States
Butaritari
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781612343471
1612343473