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Lieut. Oscar Peatross of Raleigh, N.C. found his detachment in the Japs' rear. Three of his men were killed. Lieut. Peatross and the rest burned trucks, killed Jap couriers, destroyed a radio station, finally fought their way back to the beach and returned to their ship, wondering what had happened to Carlson and the main detachment...
They Wanted Prisoners. The chief of the islanders gave pantsless Captain Davis a sarong. Other natives ignored the Japanese fire, plied the Marines with coconuts and coconut juice, told them where the Japs were concentrated. Three times during the day Jap bombers came over, did more harm to their own forces than to the Marines. U.S. machine-gunners on the shore destroyed two planes which landed in Makin's still lagoon...
Lieut. Charles T. Lamb of Snow Hill, N.C. was wounded in the head and shoulder. After his wounds were dressed he returned to his men and decided to board a Jap sloop in the lagoon. A Jap marine fired through a porthole, missed. Lieut. Lamb tossed a grenade into the Japanese boat, clambered aboard and polished off the Jap...
Toward the end of the fighting, the natives told Colonel Carlson that only eight Japs were left alive. They were all snipers, strapped in the trees. Marines killed six, but never did find the other two. Colonel Carlson figured that he and his men had killed 198 of the 200 Jap marines on the island (plus 150 more who went down on two Japanese ships which U.S. warships sank in the harbor). Colonel Carlson found the body of the Japanese commander, took his sword (which was later presented to Admiral Nimitz in Honolulu). The Marines lost fewer than 20 dead...
...raiders destroyed three radio stations, 1,000 gallons of gasoline, many trucks and other military stores. They also found many a record of pre-war U.S. policy: the trucks had been made in the U.S., the gasoline containers bore the trade-mark of a U.S. refiner, the Jap garrison's corned beef had a U.S. label on the cans. Makin after the raid looked better to Colonel Carlson. Said he: "It was a sight to see. There were dead Japs all over the place...