Transcriber’s note: Table of Contents added by Transcriberand placed into the Public Domain.
Contents
- From Makin to Bougainville: Marine Raiders in The Pacific War
- Creating the Raiders
- Sidebar: Major General Merritt A. Edson, USMC
- Sidebar: Brigadier General Evans F. Carlson, USMC
- Sidebar: Destroyer Transports
- Shaping the Raiders
- Getting to the Fight
- Makin
- Tulagi
- Tasimboko
- Edson’s Ridge
- Matanikau
- Sidebar: Raider Weapons and Equipment
- The Long Patrol
- Sidebar: The Raider Training Center
- Reshaping the Raiders
- New Georgia
- Sidebar: The Raider Patch
- Enogai
- Bairoko
- Bougainville
- The Raider Legacy
- Sources
- About the Author
- Errata
- About this series of pamphlets
- Transcriber’s Notes
From Makin to
Bougainville:
Marine Raiders in
The Pacific War
Marines in
World War II
Commemorative Series
By Major Jon T. Hoffman
U.S. Marine Corps Reserve
The Browning air-cooled.30-caliber machine gun was the weaponof choice for raider battalions because ofits low weight in comparison to otheravailable machine guns. The raider battalionswere not armed with heavyweapons. Department of Defense Photo(USMC) 56108
