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On the Canal - The Marines of L-3-5 on Guadalcanal, 1942

By: Stackpole Books

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Military History Series (Stackpole Books)

Last Stocked on 1/22/2013

Product Info

Title
On the Canal - The Marines of L-3-5 on Guadalcanal, 1942
Publisher
Category
Author
Ore Marion, Thomas Cuddihy, Edward Cuddihy
Pages
314
Dimensions
6x9x.75"
NKG Part #
2147482751
Type
Softcover

Description

Excerpt on firing a rifle grenade: "I jammed the rifle stock tight against my shoulder, raised myself up off the ground to a kneeling position, and squeezed the trigger. The rifle went bang! and the recoil jarred it loose from my grip. The rifle smacked me hard in the jaw. With that, I went down on my face while the little bluebirds started going tweet, tweet, tweet around my head.--'Did I hit it?' I asked.--'Yeah, you hit it,' Flash said. 'The damn thing just didn't work.'--We finally ran into somebody from another unit, a guy who really understood how the new style grenade was supposed to work. We explained our misfortune to him, and he asked us did you pull the firing pin out . . . The god damn pin!"

  • A straightforward, gripping tale from the Marines that stormed ashore on Guadalcanal in World War II
  • Told with humor and honesty in a no-holds-barred approach that only a Marine who was there could tell