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Goettge’s Patrol Scenario#: Guad01     Date: August 12th, 1942     Location: Guadalcanal The 5th Marines have captured a Japanese warrant officer named Tsuneto Sakado. He divulged that a group of demoralized Okinawan and Korean laborers and Japanese engineers from Henderson Field are in a camp west of the Matanikau River. Colonel… Conflict of Heroes — Guadalcanal
The Lost Patrol Scenario#: 34     Date: 1942-08-12     Location: Guadalcanal 1st Marine Division Intel Officer Frank Goettage asked for and received permission from MG Vandergrift to conduct a long-range patrol to locate Japanese remnants who he suspected to be on the verge of surrender. His patrol of 25 Marines would … Last Hundred Yards — The Solomon Islands