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The Five Days that Rerouted a Marine Landing - Did They Make It?
Three thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven Marines must reroute from Kavieng to Emirau in five days - did they make it in time?
The Five Days that Rerouted a Marine Landing - Did They Make It?
In this episode, we follow the abrupt pivot of a major Pacific amphibious operation and the scramble that followed. What choices, intelligence, and logistics forced a five-day redirection, and what did commanders decide to do with a force already loaded for a different island?
Date: March 20, 1944
Event: Landing on an empty beach
Person: Rear Admiral Theodore Wilkinson
Unit: Fourth Marine Landing…
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