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Synopsis
On October 24-25, 1942, Marine Sergeant John Basilone was in charge of two sections of heavy machine guns defending a narrow pass to Henderson Airfield on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Although vastly outnumbered, Manila John and his fellow Marines checked the assault by the Japanese. For that, Sgt. Basilone was awarded the Medal of Honor and sent back to the states to appear at war-bond rallies. He toured the country and met Hollywood starlets. His picture made the cover of Life magazine. But Sergeant Basilone was unsatisfied back home and volunteered to return to combat, ending up at Iwo Jima. Under heavy artillery fire on February 19, 1945, he singlehandedly took out an enemy blockhouse. Minutes later, he and four others in his platoon died in an artillery blast. Sergeant Basilone was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross and Purple Heart, making him the only enlisted Marine in World War II to receive all three medals.
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Philip Martin McCaulay is an actuary with a degree in mathematics from Indiana University. He has sold thousands of non-fiction books in the fields of pensions, investments, finance, real estate, massage therapy, card games, cooking, and history. He volunteers to write, publish, and ship free copies of books to soldiers through Operation Paperback.
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- PublisherLulu Press, Inc.
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 055734574X
- ISBN 13 9780557345748
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages68
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