EARLY EPISODE: The Makin Raid
Added 2024-06-30 20:04:58 +0000 UTCA Marine officer builds a special forces unit on the ideas of Maoism and launches one of the strangest raids of WWII
Sources:
Duane Schultz. Evans Carlson, Marine Raider: The Man Who Commanded America's First Special Forces
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-makin-raid-what-really-happened-to-the-marines/
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/raid-on-makin/
https://www.historynet.com/gung-ho-makin-raids-strange-legacy/
https://www.historynet.com/marine-veterans-recount-daring-raid-on-makin-atoll/
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/evans-carlson-forms-carlsons-raiders/
Comments
I'm now determined to make a Home Depot samurai costume.
Stephanie House
2024-07-16 21:38:57 +0000 UTCA good officer? What is this, Lions led by Lions?
Hugh Crosthwait
2024-07-12 09:02:50 +0000 UTCGangsters of Capitalism by Jonathan Katz is an amazing book about Smedley Butler and American empire building in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, China, and the Philippines.
Noblesse Oblahaj
2024-07-08 15:59:10 +0000 UTC
