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Just Out of Sight
By A.W.C. Eldridge
SAS Great Escapes
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 30121" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Carlson </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Evans Fordyce </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>2 Raider Bn (Commanding Officer) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lieutenant Colonel </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Navy Cross with Gold Star, Legion of Merit </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Makin Atoll 1942 (NC) Guadalcanal 1942 (SC and Gold Star) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 26.2.1896 Sidney, New York</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son also served with Raiders - See awards</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>enlisted U.S.Army 1912</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commissioned during WW1</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>enlisted U.S.M.C. 1922 as Private</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>2Lt 1923</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>4th Marines</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Navy Cross for Nicaragua 1930</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>served China and resigned</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>rejoined U.S.M.C.R. April 1941 as Major</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>WIA 1944 Saipan</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>retired 1.7.1946 as Brigadier General</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 27.5.1947 Portland,Oregon</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Arlington National Cemetery,Virginia Section 11 Site 653 </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/e-carlson.35438/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/35/35438-1b144e46e36c24dc0354f99c8040ca27.jpg?1619516576" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/e-carlson.116/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/0/116-4fe3d4517485b50497c8a5dd2485f82e.jpg?1591382944" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/e-carlson.5765/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/5/5765-dc2f4d0744a7653ba1a9e6a702510054.jpg?1591384385" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/e-carlson-grave.35432/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/35/35432-435c2152216b26378e1e4abd5e479bed.jpg?1619441884" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">Evans Carlson military career begin in 1912, when at the age of 16 he left high school and enlisted in the U.S. Army. He served in the Philippines and in Hawaii and, less than a year after fulfilling his 4-year Army enlistment, returned to service in time for the Mexican punitive expedition. During World War I he saw action in France, and was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in action. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in May, 1917, and made Captain of field artillery in December 1917. After the war, in 1922 he enlisted as a Marine Corps Private and the following year was commissioned a second lieutenant. In Nicaragua he earned the first of three Navy Crosses. Serving as a "observer" in China in the years before World War II, he became impressed with the guerrilla warfare being waged against the Japanese, and upon returning home received authorization to recruit and train the first Marine Raiders.</span></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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