Evans Carlson
✓ Source-basedstableUnited States Marine Corps general (1896-1947)
United StatesLived 1896 to 1947 · aged 51Evans Fordyce Carlson was a United States Marine Corps officer who led "Carlson's Raiders" during World War II. Many credit Carlson with developing the tactics and attitude that would later come to define America's special operations forces.
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Captain and Mrs. Evans F. Carlson c. 1931
Carlson with Chinese Red Army Commander Zhu De at the Eighth Route Army's field headquarters in Shanxi province, December 1937
Lt. Col. Carlson c. 1941-1946
Lt. Col. Carlson is decorated by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, September 30, 1942
Lt. Col. Carlson after the Makin Island Raid
Carlson at a press conference where he praised the Chinese Eighth Route Army, March 11, 1944
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Evans Fordyce Carlson was a United States Marine Corps officer who led "Carlson's Raiders" during World War II. Many credit Carlson with developing the tactics and attitude that would later come to define America's special operations forces. He is renowned for the "Makin Island raid" in 1942, and his raiders' "Long Patrol" behind Japanese lines on Guadalcanal, in which 488 Japanese were killed. Carlson popularized the phrase "gung-ho".
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