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Top of the Ladder
John C. Chapin
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1943
Department of Defense Photo (USMC) 61899
LtGen Alexander A. Vandegrift was an early commander of IMAC.
The men in the rifle battalions long remembered the sight. On5 one occasion, a Marine Corsair was about to pull the trigger on an enemy Zeke (“Zero”) fighter set up perfectly in the pilot’s sights when a burst of fire from Marine .50-caliber machine guns on the beach, meant for the Zeke, shot the American down. One of the riflemen later recalled that the Marine pilot fell into the ocean and surfaced with a broken leg. “We waded out to get him. He was ticked off—mostly because he missed the Jap.”
In spite of all these problems, the assault battalions had, by the end of D-Day, reached their objectives on the Initial Beachhead Line, 600–1,000 yards inland. One enormous unexpected obstacle, however, had now become painfully clear. Available maps w. . . Read More
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Concentrating mostly on the invasion of Bougainville with a view to isolating the strategic island of Rabaul, John C Chapin, in this offering forming part of a commemorative series of books dedicated to the American Marines, highlights the predicaments posed to a Marine by both nature and the enemy