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WW II Silk Chutes and Hard Fighting Units 1st – 3rdParaMarines Gavutu Guadalcanal History book
This impossible to history book goes into detail on theparamarines and cover the following topics.
The first cohort of Marines paratroopers trained at NASLakehurst in New Jersey in October 1940, eventually becoming the 1st MarineParachute Battalion. They were followed by a second group in December 1940,forming the 2nd Marine Parachute Battalion.
The Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo was a land battleof the Pacific campaign of World War II, between the forces of the ImperialJapanese Navy and Allied (mainly United States (U.S.) Marine) ground forces. Ittook place from 7–9 August 1942 on the Solomon Islands, during the initialAllied landings in the Guadalcanal campaign.
The paramarines joined the Raiders for the Battle of Edson'sRidge, also known as the Battle of the Bloody Ridge, Battle of Raiders Ridge,and Battle of the Ridge, was a land battle of the Pacific campaign of World WarII between Imperial Japanese Army and Allied (mainly United States MarineCorps) ground forces. It took place from 12–14 September 1942, on Guadalcanalin the Solomon Islands, and was the second of three separate major Japaneseground offensives during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
The 2nd Parachute Battalion performed a diversionary raid onChoiseul Island in October 1943 and later joined the 1st and 3rd ParachuteBattalion on Bougainville.
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