Word: carlson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night of August 17, when the Marines landed on Makin Island, was dark and rainy. The surf was high. Captain James N. M. Davis of Evanston, Ill. lost his pants in the waves. Major James Roosevelt of Washington, second in command to Lieut. Colonel Evans F. Carlson, cut his left index finger on a piece of coral. But the Marines, their faces and hands daubed green to blend with the foliage, all got ashore...
...meantime Colonel Carlson had led the main group of Marines toward the heart of the island. They crept into several shacks, found them empty except for such things as a piano and a roll of sacred music (the Marines found no trace of several Catholic nuns who had been on the islands). The clatter of the Jap machine gun, firing at Lieut. Le-François, first told Colonel Carlson that his landing had been detected. Then the Marines heard the hard chatter of truck and motorcycle engines, the flat crack of snipers' bullets from the palms...
Through the night and into the next morning the Japs met Carlson's men with rifles, machine guns and automatic grenade-throwers. Each machine gun and grenade nest had to be exterminated, to the last Jap. Corporal Edward R. Wygel of Milner, Idaho killed all but two Japs at a machine gun with a hand grenade. He then killed one of the two with a pistol, the other with his knife...
...Marines were still killing Japs in the Solomons (see col. 1) when a smaller Marine detachment raided tiny Makin Island, 1,250 miles northeast of Tulagi. Under tall, battle-hardened Lieut. Colonel Evans F. Carlson and his second-in-command, Major James Roosevelt, they killed at least 80 Japs, destroyed two seaplanes and a radio station, looked on while Jap bombers from a nearby island pounded what was left of their own men and installations. Then the Marines retired...
Presented commissions as Second Lieutenant in the Field Artillery Reserve were: Joseph M. Ambrose, Dancers; Walter D. Brooks, Jr., Fitchburg; Francis E. Carlson, Winchester; Arthur G. Carty, Jamaica Plain; Thomas M. Cook, Cleveland Heights, Ohio; Stuart H. Cowen, West Warwick, Rhode Island; Richard B. Craig, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Robert F. Cutting 2d, New York City; Nicholas E. Devereux 3d, Fort Ontario, New York; John J. Devin, Newton Center; Henry F. Dunbar, Boston; Gerald Eisner, New York City; Russell W. Ellis, Winchester...