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Shadow Warriors

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by Dick Camp


  A .30-caliber machine gun position on Edson’s Ridge just before the bloody Japanese assault on 12–13 September 1942. USMC Photo

  The morning after the bloody Japanese attacks on Edson’s Ridge. A line of Marines can barely be seen in the smoke- and fog-shrouded air behind the killing ground. USMC Photo

  Lieutenant Colonel Victor H. Krulak, commanding officer 2nd Parachute Battalion after successfully pulling off a diversionary raid on Choiseul. USMC Photo

  Captain Frank Farrell, the OSS agent who investigated the Nazi spy ring in China at the end of the war. USMC Photo

  Captain Frank Farrell, 1st Marines intelligence officer, and two unknown Marines in the Guadalcanal jungle in 1942. USMC Photo

  First published in 2013 by Zenith Press, an imprint of MBI Publishing Company, 400 First Avenue North, Suite 400, Minneapolis, MN 55401 USA

  © 2013 Zenith Press

  Text © 2013 Dick Camp

  All photographs are from the author’s collection unless noted otherwise.

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  Digital Edition: 978-1-61058-825-6

  Softcover Edition: 978-0-76034-429-3

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Camp, Richard D.

  Shadow warriors : the untold stories of American special operations during WWII / Dick Camp.

  pages cm

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  ISBN 978-0-7603-4429-3 (hardcover)

  1. World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--United States. 2. World War, 1939-1945--Commando operations--United States. 3. United States. Marine Corps--History--World War,

  1939-1945. 4. United States. Office of Strategic Services. I. Title.

  D810.S7C328 2013

  940.54’8673--dc23

  Editor: Scott Pearson

  Design Manager: James Kegley

  Layout: Helena Schimizu

  Cover designer: Simon Larkin

  On the front cover: Raiders or Paramarines bring their rubber boats ashore to conceal in the jungle. USMC Photo

 

 

 


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