Guadalcanal Marine - Hardcover

Lane, Kerry L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1578066646 ISBN 13: 9781578066643

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 2004

Synopsis

In Guadalcanal Marine, Lt. Col. Kerry L. Lane recounts the dark reality of combat experienced by the men of the 1st Marine Division fighting on Guadalcanal and Cape Gloucester. With eighty gripping photographs and his text, he brings to life the struggles of his companions as they achieve these two astonishing victories.

Lane, a sixteen-year-old farm boy from North Carolina, battled the Japanese and rose to heroism powering a bulldozer to bridge "Suicide Creek" in the swamps on Cape Gloucester. There he led his Marine comrades to victory.

Lane describes the trials of the common Marine serving in the first grueling island campaign. In vivid prose he tells of joining the service before the war and of training. Soon after the shocking news of Pearl Harbor, he and his trusted comrades fight the Japanese in one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific.

In the tropics, Lane and his companions suffer malaria and dysentery, endure jungle rot and oppressive heat, and grapple with an enemy who fights to the death. Throughout the book, Lane bares the experience of the average Marine and his historic World War II journey, revealing how one teenager became a Corps hero and ultimately finished his military career as a lieutenant colonel.

About this title

Book Description:

A powerful recollection of amphibious assaults and fierce jungle warfare from a hero of “Suicide Creek”

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1578066646
• ISBN 13: 9781578066643
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 358