Word: matanikau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Cook was highballing his way to New York, researchers here in our editorial offices were busy digging out background material on the First Marine Division-how it fought at Tulagi and Gavutu and Koli Point, at Tenaru and Matanikau and Cape Esperance (there were pages of these background facts, but they had to be told in nine published lines...
...aboard were 370 members of the ist Marine Division-survivors of Tulagi, conquerors of Guadalcanal; the men who mowed down the Japs like hay at Bloody Ridge, and crossed the bloody Matanikau River; the invaders of Cape Gloucester, the rain-drenched fighters of Talasea, the men who took Hill 660 when they should have been annihilated halfway up; the unnamed defenders of Nameless Hill, the survivors of Coffin Corner...
...driver (William Bendix), a smooth, hard sergeant (Lloyd Nolan), an ex-All-America chaplain (Preston Foster), a trigger-happy, brave child called Chicken (Richard Jaeckel). These men and others as simply characterized are put through 1) quiet days & nights of increasing apprehension; 2) the raid on a nearby village (Matanikau), from which only three returned (only one, in the film); 3) cleaning out the Japanese with grenades, gasoline and TNT; 4) the ferocious Japanese naval shelling of Oct. 15, 1942, during which William Bendix improvises a prayer; 5) the relief by the Army, which ends the film on a grim...
...Guadalcanal. "The Japs attacked us and we suffered 85 casualties," said one marine. "Two thousand dead Jap bodies presented a disposal problem." In a little attack of their own the Marines slipped across their western boundary at the Matanikau River, cheerfully seized two 75-mm. guns that had been shelling them. This week, supported by fighters, by dive-bombers which knocked out Jap guns, and even by Flying Fortresses, the Marines pushed back that boundary a couple of miles...
...Ridge to the South, nearly succeeded in taking the airfield, but were finally stopped. Nearly 500 were killed. The third battle, in which the Marines took the initiative for the first time, was last fortnight: they caught the Japs, as they prepared to attack the beach head from the Matanikau River to the west, and forced them back ten miles. In the process 200 were killed. In the Air: Shoestring Magnificence...
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