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All Original Written Material copyright 1999, Dan Marsh; all original artwork copyright 1999 by Louie Marsh. Please use with permission only.

 

 

The Good Stuff

Want to know more about the Raiders, the war they fought, and combat in general? Listed below are some of the best resources I know of, both books and links to other great sites. I hope you find them as helpful and enlightening as I have.

Good Browsing
                             Interesting Sites

Raider Related Links

Special Operations Homepage www.specialoperations.com
Last Man Homepage northlink.com/~ajfergus/
Makin Homepage www.makin1942.com
4th Marine Regt History Site www.geocities.com/Pentagon/4657
Official Raider Homepage www.usmarineraiders.org
Official 6th Marine Div. Site www.sixthmarinedivision.com
Raider Discussion Board www.delphi.com/n/main.asp?
webtag=raider2001&nav=start
VMD-154 Association http://home.insightbb.com/
~vmd154.reunion.assn/

US Army Central Identification Laboratory http://www.cilhi.army.mil/
Sgt. Grits Marine Specialties www.grunt.com
Pacific Wrecks www.pacificwrecks.com
Marines’ Memorial Club www.MarineClub.com. 
Rules of Engagement devsite.dnastudio.com/rulesofengagement/

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Beirut Memorial On Line www.beirut-memorial.org
Free Marine Corps Links Page http://www.angelfire.com/tx2/marinepride/freelinks.html
Headquarters USMC http://www.usmc.mil
Camp Pendleton http://www.cpp.usmc.mil/home.htm
MCRD Command Museum http://www.cpp.usmc/mcrd.nsf?.opendatabase
Other Links Homepage http://www.cpp.usmc.mil/domho
Marine Links-Marine Corps League http://www.pos.net/marine/marlinks.html
Guadalcanal On Line: Homepage http://www.geocities.com/heartland
Hyperwar: U.S. Marine Corps In WWII http://www.sunsite.unc.edu/hyper
Camp Lejeune-Marine Corps Base http://www.onslow.com/lejeune/camp.html
Marine Corps Association http://www.mca-marines.org
The Marine Corps Historical Foundation http://www.usmc-history.org
World War II On The Web-Links For World War II in The Pacific http://www.geocities.com/athens/oracle/2691/paclink.htm
The American War Library http://members.aol.com/Veterans/warlib6e.htm
Gunny G's Marine Postal WebSite http://www.angelfire.com/ca/dickg/gunny.html
Top's Marine Links http://members.tripod.com/~JHarp/VMLINKS.html
Marine Vignettes http://www.angelfire.com/ca/dickg/vignettes.html
Christ's Church on the River http://www.rivcom.net/public/ccor/
The Marine Corps Legacy Museum http://www.mclm.com/
Raider Clan Home Page http://home.att.net/~rlollar/semper/main.htm
1st Battalion, 3rd Marines, 3rd Marine Division http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/2032
dunc1's Homepage http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/5850/
dunc2's Homepage http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/5650/
Achtung Panzer! http://www.achtungpanzer.com/
Wild Bill's Raiders http://www.thegamers.net/wildbillsraiders/index.htm
Downriver Detachment, Marine Corps League in Wyandotte, Mich www.downriverdet.20m.com/gallagher.html

Good Reading -
                           Marine Histories & Books

History of The U.S. Marine Corps- Operations in World War II
Volume I Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal By LtCol Frank O. Hough, Maj Verle E. Ludwig, and Henry I. Shaw, Jr.
Volume II The Isolation of Rabaul By Henry I. Shaw, Jr. and Maj Douglas T. Kane
Volume III The Central Pacific Drive By Henry I. Shaw, Jr.,Bernard C. Nalty and Edwin T. Turnbladh
Volume IV Western Pacific Operations By George W. Garand and Truman R. Strobridge
Volume V Victory and Occupation By Bemis M. Frank and Henry I. Shaw, Jr.
Hold High The Torch-History of The Fourth Marines By Kenneth W. Condit, and Edwin T. Turnbladh
History of The Sixth Marine Division By Bevan G. Cass
The Recapture of Guam By O. R. Lodge
"Into the Shadows Furious, the Brutal Battle for New Georgia." Brian Altobello
The Guadalcanal Campaign By John Zimmerman
Marines in The Central Solomons By John N. Rentz
Bougainville and The Central Solomons By John N. Rentz
Bless’em All: The Raider Marines of World War II By MajGen Oscar F. Peatross
Our Kind of War: Illustrated Saga of The U.S. Marine Raiders of World War II By R. G. Rosenquist, Col Martin J.(Stormy) Sexton and Robert A. Buerlein
The Right Kind of War By John (Moe) McCormick
Once A Legend: Biography of Col "Red Mike Edson of The Marine Raiders By Jon T. Hoffman
The Marine Raiders By Edwin P. Hoyt
Okinawa-The Last Battle of World War II By Robert Leckie
Tennozan-The Battle of Okinawa and The Atomic bomb By George Feifer
With The Old Breed-At Peleliu and Okinawa By E.B. Sledge
The Battle for Okinawa Hiromichi Yahara-Staff Officer Japanese 32nd Army
A Fellowship of Valor Col Joseph H.Alexander, USMC (Ret)
Marine-The life of Chesty Puller By Burke Davis
First To Fight By Victor H. "Brute" Krulak
Guadalcanal Starvation Island By Eric Hammel (back in print)
Killing Ground On Okinawa by James H. Hallas
Fortunate Son-An Autobiography By Lewis b. Puller, Jr.
Marine: In Depth Study of a Marine Expeditionary Unit By Tom Clancy
The World Within War By Gerald F. Linderman
The Face of Battle By John Keegan
Grown Grey in War The Len Maffioli Story By Bruce Norton USMC(ret) & Len Maffioli USMC(ret)
Semper Fi, Mac By Henry Berry

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