They Called It A Pea Shooter — Until It Deleted An Entire Regiment

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At 10:30 p.m. on October 24th, 1942, Sergeant Mitchell Page crouched in a foxhole on the blackened ridge of Guadal Canal, running his hand over the cold steel breach of a weapon that half the United States Marine Corps considered a joke. It was raining, the kind of heavy tropical sheets of water that turned the jungle floor into a slurry of mud and... Read More