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  • 2 NY vets of Edson's Raiders recall WWII battles (1st and 2nd Raider battalions)

    05/27/2013 8:05:58 AM PDT · by virgil283 · 5 replies
    newsday.com ^ | May 26, 2013 11:48 AM | CHRIS CAROLA
    "World War II combat veteran Robert Addison pulled from an old briefcase and perused the 300-plus names listed under the words, "Lest We Forget." ......The document Addison keeps among his wartime mementos and literature lists the names of members of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion who died while fighting the Japanese in the South Pacific.....Fighting from positions separated by a few hundred yards along high ground near the island's airfield, Addison and West helped defend what became known as Bloody Ridge -- but that the Marines called "Edson's Ridge." They wouldn't learn until much later that the fight was considered...