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Belmont Club July 14th, 2009 3:32 am Who saved GI Joe? <a href="http://harvest.AdGardener.com/noscript.aspx?s=167&c=a9b065f5-2460-de11-908e-001a4befa6a0" target="_blank"><img src="http://harvest.AdGardener.com/noscript.aspx?s=167&w=300&h=250&c=a9b065f5-2460-de11-908e-001a4befa6a0" width="300" height="250" border="0" /></a> One of the actual models for the Hasboro action figure GI Joe was Marine Medal of Honor winner Mitchell Paige. Paige  who passed away in 2003, held a hilltop on Guadalcanal against more than a company of Imperial Japanese soldiers by manning each of the four machine gun positions in turn after everyone else had been killed. Paige tells the story of that frenzied Medal of Honor night, as each position was overrun and he finally held the ring alone...

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Off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands In the summer of 1942, the Japanese had to be stopped in their drive to cut off Australia by severing the US shipping lanes. So far in the Pacific War, the Japanese had destroyed the US battle fleet at Pearl Harbor; destroyed the US Asiatic Fleet in the Philippines; sunk the combined Dutch, British, Australian and American fleet in the East Indies (Java); punished the British fleet in Malaya and Ceylon and pushed the Indian Ocean fleet back to Africa; captured southeast Asia, the Philippines, the resource rich East Indies, and many island chains for defense...