Talk:Battle of Makin
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[edit]Two minor points. 2d Raider was commanded by Col Evans F. Carlson, hence their common name, "Carlson's Raiders". And, for reasons that elude me, the name is pronounced "muggin".
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[edit]It says that there were only 400 Japanese troops in the beginning, yet somehow 700 died.
- There were 400 laborers as well. Gdr 15:14, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
The 1942 raid section has a fragmented sentence saying the garrison was only 43 soldiers, but the very next sentence says 83 soldiers were killed. 65.95.237.43 17:42, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
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