Field Notes Blog
Six Months for an Airfield: The Battle of Guadalcanal
On August 7, 1942, U.S. Marines seized an unfinished airstrip on an island most Americans had never heard of. Holding it would take six months, six naval battles, and thousands of lives — and force...
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Seventy-Six Hours on Betio: The Battle of Tarawa and the Lessons Written in Blood
On November 20, 1943, the 2nd Marine Division assaulted Betio Island across a reef no intelligence report had adequately charted. Standard landing craft grounded hundreds of yards short of the beac...
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