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1 online resource (xv, 358 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Cover; Contents; X; Introduction; Abbreviations and Terms; Key to Military Map Symbols; Part I. Guadalcanal; 1. Making of a Marine; 2. Preparing for Combat; 3. Wartime Expansion; 4. Shoving off to Make History; 5. Guadalcanal, Their Finest Hour; 6. Stranded; 7. The Battle of the Tenaru; 8. The Battle of Bloody Ridge; 9. After the Ridge; 10. September Matanikau Action; 11. October Matanikau Battle; 12. Second Assault on Bloody Ridge; 13. The Final Phase of the Campaign; 14. Guadalcanal in Perspective; 15. Departing for the Land Down Under; 16. Australia Remembered; 17. Going Back to War |
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Part II. Cape Gloucester18. Cape Gloucester, the Green Inferno; 19. The Battle of Suicide Creek; 20. Cape Gloucester in Perspective; 21. Pavuvu; 22. Homeward Bound; 23. The Last Post; Glossary; America terms; A; B; C; D; E; G; H; K; M; P; S; T; U; Australian terms; A; B; C; D; F; G; S; Japanese terms; B; H; R; S; T; Z; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; Z |
| Summary |
In Guadalcanal Marine, Kerry L. Lane recounts the dark reality of combat experienced by the men of the 1st Marine Division fighting on Guadalcanal and Cape Gloucester. With eighty gripping photographs and his text, he brings to life the struggles of his companions as they achieve these two astonishing victories. Lane, a sixteen-year-old farm boy from North Carolina, battled the Japanese and rose to heroism powering a bulldozer to bridge ""Suicide Creek"" in the swamps on Cape Gloucester. There he led his Marine comrades to victory. Lane describes the trials of the common Marine serving in |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 351) and index |
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Print version record |
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Lane, Kerry
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Lane, Kerry |
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United States. Marine Corps. Marine Regiment, 1st.
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United States. Marine Corps -- Non-commissioned officers -- Biography
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United States. Marine Corps |
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United States. Marine Corps. Marine Regiment, 1st |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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Armed Forces -- Non-commissioned officers
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Military campaigns
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Regimental histories
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Pacific Area
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United States
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autobiographies (literary genre)
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Personal narratives
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Personal narratives
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Autobiographies.
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Personal narratives.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Récits personnels.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1423732049 |
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9781423732044 |
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9781604730555 |
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1604730552 |
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