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Merritt Edson
United States general
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Battle of Guadalcanal
- In Battle of Guadalcanal: The land campaign on Guadalcanal
Merritt (“Red Mike”) Edson, the 800 Marines of the 1st Raider Battalion, and a handful of Marine parachute troops were subjected to one of the most intense assaults on Henderson Field thus far, when they were attacked by a Japanese force more than three times…
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