"Makin Atoll Raid: The first Submarine Commando..." Topic
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| Tango01 | 29 Jul 2022 9:30 p.m. PST |
… RAID IN HISTORY
"Following the attacks on Pearl Harbor and Southeast Asia, the Allies were on the retreat in the Pacific. American, British, Dutch, and French territories came under attack by the Japanese version of Blitzkrieg. Over the span of a few months, Imperial Japan had conquered much of the Pacific. And now Australia, New Zealand, and even the U.S. seemed to be in danger of invasion or attack.
But after the pivotal Battle of Midway in June 1942, where U.S. intelligence enabled the Navy to sink three and damage an additional Japanese aircraft carriers, the U.S. started a counterattack that would become known as "island hopping." The Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal and Tulagi, came first. But to divert Japanese attention from the amphibious landings there and also prepare the environment for later operations, U.S. planners decided to conduct a commando raid on the small Makin Atoll…"
Full article here
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Armand |
| Murvihill | 30 Jul 2022 1:46 p.m. PST |
"…three and damage an additional Japanese aircraft carriers…"
I stopped there. |
| Tango01 | 31 Jul 2022 3:15 p.m. PST |
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| Garde de Paris | 02 Aug 2022 1:29 p.m. PST |
I was 7 when "Gung Ho" was made about Carlson's Raiders. Great propaganda film for the time. I tried to enlist – at 7! GdeP PS: It is on YouTube, "Gung Ho." The cast shown on Wikipedia: Cast Randolph Scott as Col. Thorwald
Alan Curtis as Pvt. John Harbison
Noah Beery Jr. as Cpl. Kurt Richter
J. Carrol Naish as Lt. C.J. Cristoforos – great character actor.
Sam Levene as Plt Sgt. Leo'Transport' Andreof
David Bruce as Larry O'Ryan
Richard Lane as Capt. Dunphy
Walter Sande as Gunner McBride
Louis Jean Heydt as Lt. Roland Browning
Robert Mitchum as Pvt. 'Pig-Iron' Matthews – Later big star!
Rod Cameron as Pvt. Rube Tedrow – Later another star.
Grace McDonald as Kathleen Corrigan
Milburn Stone as Cmdr. Blake – the Doctor on Gunsmoke on TV.
Peter Coe as Pvt. Kozzarowski
Harold Landon as Pvt. Frankie Montana
Chet Huntley as Narrator – later TV news personality. |
| Tango01 | 02 Aug 2022 3:29 p.m. PST |
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