Summary Devil Dogs: King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines: From Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan Part of Footsteps in the Pacific 2 Week The "Devil Dogs" part of the legendary 1st Marine Divisio, were among the first American soldiers to take the offensive in WWII - and also the last. They landed on the beaches of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in August 1942 - the first US ground offensive of the war - and were present when Okinawa, Japan's most southerly prefecture, finally fell to American troops after a bitter struggle in June 1945. In between they fought in the "Green Hell" of Cape Gloucester on the island of New Britain, and across the coral wasteland of Peleliu in the Palau Islands, a campaign described by one King Company veteran as "thirty days of the meanest, around-the-clock slaughter that desperate men can inflict on each other." Saul David is a Sunday Times bestselling military historian, novelist and broadcaster. He lives outside of Bath, England, where he is a professor of military history at the University of Buckingham.

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