Tag: Gilbert Islands

We chat about setups/rules/strategies for the huge, dense Blood Reef Tarawa forces.

Marine Raiders, led by LtCol Evans F. Carlson, launches a covert attack on Makin Atoll to divert Japanese attention from Guadalcanal.

It was D-Day +1 on Guadalcanal in the Solomons, and half-way across the Pacific two submarines, the Nautilus and Argonaut, departed Pearl Harbor carrying U.S. Marine Corp Raiders.