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From Makin to Bougainville: Marine Raiders in the Pacific War

Chapter 26: ERRATA
By Jon T. Hoffman
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The text recounts the creation, organization, training, and combat employment of Marine Raider battalions in the Pacific theater, explaining how high-level advocacy, doctrinal experiments in amphibious warfare, and particular leaders produced lightly equipped, fast-moving raiding units. It examines their use of destroyer-transports and night landings, their tactical role in seizing key terrain ahead of larger assaults, and the challenges of scaling amphibious operations during wartime expansion. The account integrates unit history, operational innovation, and leadership dynamics to explain both the raiders' battlefield performance and the factors that led to their eventual disbandment.

About the Author

Major Jon T. Hoffman, USMCR, has spent more than 12 years on active duty as an infantry officer, an instructor at the Naval Academy, and a historian at Headquarters Marine Corps. Presently he is serving as a reserve field historian for the Marine Corps History and Museums Division. He has a master’s degree in military history from Ohio State University and a law degree from Duke University. In 1994 Presidio Press published his biography of Major General Edson, Once A Legend, which won the Marine Corps Historical Foundation’s Greene Award. He is the author of numerous articles in the Marine Corps Gazette, Naval Institute Proceedings, Naval History, Leatherneck, and Vermont History. His works have earned several writing prizes, including the Marine Corps Historical Foundation’s Heinl Awards for 1992, 1993, and 1994.

ERRATA

In the pamphlet, The Right to Fight: African-American Marines in World War II, in this series, among “Sources” listed on page 29 is Blacks and Whites Together Through Hell: U.S. Marines in World War II. The bibliographic listing misspells the name of one author and assigns a wrong World War II unit to the second. The volume is by Perry E. Fischer, a veteran of the 8th Marine Ammunition Company, and Brooks E. Gray, who was a member of the 51st Defense Battalion.