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Mensaje: <blockquote data-quote="emilioteles" data-source="post: 1791437" data-attributes="member: 3144"><img src="https://scontent-mia.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t31.0-8/1412625_702315616564900_7028093846634906693_o.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> A Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) man in the bow of the rubber landing craft provides covering fire as a 10-man boat crew of the US Marine 3rd Raider Battalion reaches the undefended beach of Pavuvu in the Russell Islands during 'Operation Cleanslate'. February 1943.<a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/usmarines?source=feed_text&story_id=702318953231233" target="_blank">‪</a>The landing force for 'Operation Cleanslate' (the codename for the Russell Island assault) consisted of the 43rd Infantry Division and the 3rd Raider Battalion. The Army division would seize Banika Island while the Marines took nearby Pavuvu. The APDs of Transdiv 12 carried the raiders from Espiritu Santo to Guadalcanal in mid-February. Four days prior to the 21st February D-day, a lieutenant and a sergeant from the raiders scouted both objectives-they found them empty of the enemy. The 3d Raiders thus made an unopposed landing in their first offensive action. The 159th Infantry followed them ashore and assisted in the occupation of the island.Once ashore, the light raiders suffered from their lack of organic transport as they struggled to man handle supplies from the beach to inland dumps. During the battalion's subsequent four-week stay on Pavuvu, the diet of field chow and the tough tropic conditions combined to debilitate the troops. Fully one-third developed skin problems, all men lost weight, and several dozen eventually fell ill with malaria and other diseases. Although it was not entirely the fault of planners, the hard-hitting capabilities of the Marine battalion were wasted on Cleanslate.The Russell Islands, were located 30 miles northwest of Guadalcanal's Cape Esperance and had been a staging point for the enemy's reinforcement and subsequent evacuation of Guadalcanal. Strong Japanese forces there would be a thorn in the side of an operation against New Georgia and possibly a threat to Guadalcanal itself. Admiral Halsey thus decided to seize the Russells prior to action elsewhere in the Solomons.(Source - USMC ID #: 54765)(Colourised by Royston Leonard UK)</blockquote>

Verificación: Guerra desarrollada entre Argentina y el Reino Unido en 1982