Great Battles for Boys WWII Pacific by Joe Giorello
Author:Joe Giorello
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, Children’s, History
Publisher: Joe Giorello
Published: 2022-01-14T00:00:00+00:00
Marine on Guadalcanal.
August 9, 1942: Naval Battle of Savo Island
The Japanese navy forced the American Navy to retreat, leaving the Marines alone on Guadalcanal short of supplies and ammunition.
August 21: Naval Battle of Tenaru
During the night, Japanese Colonel Kiyonao Ichiki and 800 of his men attacked a perimeter held by Americaâs 2nd Battalion. The Japanese hoped to destroy the Henderson Field airstrip.
They first killed an American gunner with a bullet to the head, then wounded the gun commander. Shredding the water jacket of a machine gun, the Japanese lobbed a grenade into the machine-gun pit.
That explosion blinded Marine Al Schmid. But Schmid kept firing. Since Schmid couldnât see, his wounded gun commander had to tap Schmidâs arm to tell him where to aim. By the next morning, the two Marines were still alive. But more than 200 Japanese soldiers were dead in front of them. Schmid was later awarded the Navy Cross, along with the gun commander and the dead gunner.
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