Forgotten Raiders of '42
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"On October 16, 1942, on Kwajalein Atoll, at the fringe of the Japanese Empire, members of the Imperial Japanese Navy's Sixth Base Unit ceremonially beheaded nine Marines from the Second Raider Battalion ... [This] is the account of how these volunteer patriots, unbeknownst to their command, were inadvertently left behind after the Marines' raid on Makin Island in August 1942 ... Tripp Wiles focuses on the Raiders' withdrawal from Makin and on [Lt. Col. Evans F.] Carlson's decisions that directly affected the men who were left behind. Wiles also examines the actions, inactions, and conditions that led to the nine Raiders' unintentional abandonment ... He reviews the Navy's private reactions and using new documents and interviews, the Raiders' fate, bringing a measure of closure to the disappearance and execution of the forgotten Raiders"—Jacket.
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