Before the Green Berets...
Before the Navy SEALs...
Before the Army Rangers...
There was the Long Patrol.
He is the author of Pacific Alamo: The Battle for Wake Island, as well as several military biographies and many articles for such publications as WWII History, Naval History, World War II, The Journal of Military History, The Naval War College Review, and Air Power History.. history in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
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About the Author: John Wukovits is a military expert and an authority on U.
Here, for the First time, is a riveting account of one man, one battalion, and one mission that would forever change the ways of warfare.
And in the process they laid the foundation for every branch of Special Forces in the modern military.
Carlson and an elite fighting force-the 2nd Raider Battalion-embarked upon a thirty-day mission behind enemy lines where they disrupted Japanese supplies, inflicted a string of defeats on the enemy in open combat, and gathered invaluable intelligence on Japanese operations on Guadalcanal.
He spent years observing guerrilla tactics all over the world, and knew that those tactics could be used effectively by the Marines.
Evans Carlson was considered a maverick by many of his comrades-and an outright traitor by others.
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November 1942: in the hellish combat zone of Guadalcanal, one man would make history.
Before the Green Berets...
Before the Navy SEALs...
Before the Army Rangers...
There was the Long Patrol
