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Marines First To Land First To Fight in Pacific War
A sweeping portrait recalls U S Marines defending Pearl Harbor Wake Atoll Midway Guadalcanal and Bougainville from December 1941 through November 1943 Led by Maj Gen Vandergrift Lt Col Carlson and other leaders Marines and Army forces grabbed key atolls including Makin Tarawa Abemama and Bougainville as Japan battled back in a pivotal early Pacific campaign
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Washington
Pearl Arbor
U. S
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Wake
James P. S. Devereaux
Atoll
Roosevelt
Midway
Midway Island
Guadalcanal
Leathernecks
Alexander A. Vandergrift
Solomon Islands
South Pacific
Marine Raider
Evans F. Carlson
Makin Island
Gilbert-Marshall
Japan
Solomons
New Georgia
Nanumea
Funafuti
Vangunu
Rendova
Kolombangara
Vella Lavella
Munda
Bougainville
United States
mid-Pacific
Gilberts
Makin
Tarawa
Nember
Abemama Atoll
Gilbert Group