Storm Landings by Joseph H. Alexander

Author:Joseph H. Alexander [Alexander, Joseph H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781612512662
Publisher: Naval Institute Press

* The author is indebted to H. Arthur “Hal” Lamar, flag lieutenant to Nimitz, and Loren F. “Sonny” Paulus, the admiral’s bodyguard, for these personal insights.

* The instructors at Marine Corps Schools in Quantico, Virginia, constructed an exact replica of the Japanese defensive complex at “the Point” on a similar promontory in Lunga Reservoir, and for the next decade all second lieutenants undergoing Basic School had to formulate a tactical assault plan in field exercises.

* In keeping with his aggressive nature, Colonel Puller maintained his regimental command post well forward; in fact, just behind his lead battalion. But Puller was slowed in this campaign by complications from his earlier wound at Guadalcanal. As Major Davis recalled: “I was always convinced that Lewie Puller would not have survived had he not been crippled. They were carrying him around on a stretcher. I was convinced if he had been able to walk around the way he was prone to do he was going to be killed.”

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