03461nam 2200637 a 450 991081294780332120200520144314.01-283-65796-11-60473-055-21-4237-3204-9(CKB)1000000000457599(EBL)1042768(OCoLC)191935398(SSID)ssj0000166140(PQKBManifestationID)11156878(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000166140(PQKBWorkID)10145234(PQKB)11271127(MiAaPQ)EBC1042768(OCoLC)62266050(MdBmJHUP)muse24722(Au-PeEL)EBL1042768(CaPaEBR)ebr10157914(EXLCZ)99100000000045759920040112d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGuadalcanal Marine /Kerry L. Lane1st ed.Jackson University Press of Mississippic20041 online resource (375 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-57806-664-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 351) and index.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 WarPart 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; ZIn 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 MariWorld War, 1939-1945Regimental historiesUnited StatesWorld War, 1939-1945Personal narratives, AmericanWorld War, 1939-1945CampaignsPacific OceanWorld War, 1939-1945Regimental historiesWorld War, 1939-1945World War, 1939-1945Campaigns940.54/265933/092BLane Kerry1620068MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812947803321Guadalcanal Marine3952658UNINA