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Photograph, aerial. Large columns of smoke rising from Makin Island as American landing craft cruise towards a beach....

Benjamin Carson and the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion left San Diego and headed to Pearl Harbor aboard the USS J....

Benjamin Carson had trained at Pearl Harbor in preparation for the raid on Makin Island. They boarded the submarines...

Benjamin Carson found that evacuating Makin Island was far more difficult that arriving there. The tide worked against...

Benjamin Carson received ten days leave after the Makin Island raid. He was billeted at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in...

William Lansford and the other Marine Raider recruits were taken to Jacques Farm where they began their training. The...

Joseph L. Harrison was born in March 1923 in Live Oak County in George West, Texas. When he was about five years old,...

The first chance William Lansford and the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion had [Annotator's Note: to fight the Japanese] was...

William Lansford continued training while he was in Hawaii waiting for the Raiders who had carried out the raid on...

William Lansford served as a machine gunner in the weapons platoon of Company E, 2nd Marine Raider Battalion on...

The first of the three battles that stands out to William Lansford was at Asamana on 11 November [Annotator's Note: 11...

William Lansford took part in the Long Patrol with the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion on Guadalcanal. Most of the time he...

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