On the Canal: The Marines of L-3-5 on Guadalcanal, 1942 - Paperback

by Ore J. Marion (Author), Thomas Cuddihy (With), Edward Cuddihy (With)

Real Battles. Real Soldiers. Real Stories.

Eight months to the day after Pearl Harbor, U.S. Marines landed on the Pacific Island of Guadalcanal. Their mission: to seize the airfield the enemy was building and stem the southward tide of the Imperial Japanese Army. Initially unopposed and ultimatrly triumphant, for four months these young soldiers engaged in a ferocious combat and endured debilitating heat, hunger, and disease. Sometimes with humor, always with brutal honesty, U.S. Marine Ore Marion takes readers into the jungle hell that was the Canal.

Author Biography

Ore J. Marion served with marine company L-3-5 on the Guadalcanal and later Iwo Jima. Promoted to Sergeant during the Guadalcanal campaign, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps until 1970. Marion died in 2003.