Category: Military Publisher: Amazon
ISBN-10: 1508420173
Type: Fiction
Pages: 276
Copyright: January 2115
ISBN-13: 9781508420170
Price: $4.95 (eBook)
Its 1941 and World War II has begun Ed Karl who is in the USMC Carlson's Raiders is sent to the South Pacific to fight the Japanese
The time is 1941 and USMC Gunnery Sergeant Ed Karl was been reassigned from the China Marines to the San Diego Naval Base in California to a new
elite group name Carlson's Raiders Second Raider Battalion.
In San Diego, is where Ed meets his future wife Jean Murphy and they plan to be married, but December 7, 1941 the Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and all their plans are changed.
Carlson's Raiders are deployed from San Diego to
Pearl Harbor Hawaii to begin operations in the South Pacific.
The Second Raider Battalion and Ed Karl are involved in many battles such as the intelligent gathering on Japanese Islands,the Makin Raid, Guadalcanal, and finally Bougainville. The Raiders are disbanded in January 1944, but the Second Raider Battalion now becomes a Regimental Special Weapons Unit and Ed continues being involved in many more battles throughout the Pacific and finally ending up in Northern China.
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