Imperial Valley Press

HE KNOWS THE ANSWER
Nevada State Journal

Lieut. Col. Evans Fordyce Carlson, the United States Marine Corps' outstanding expert on guerilla warfare is home on leave for the first time in two years.

Colonel Carlson, a tall lean, Connecticut Yankee, is the leader of Carlson's Raiders, a small and select band of Marines trained as a crack striking force for special operations. Carlson's Raiders distinguished themselves in the action which snatched Makin Island from the Japanese and later at Guadalcanal. They won one of the Marine Corps' two unit citations for their achievements. Sixteen enlisted men of the relatively small organization have won commissions on the battlefield.

Colonel Carlson, who for two years was an observer with the Chinese armies fighting the Japanese before the United States got into the struggle, knows the Japs, and he has trained his men accordingly. The Japanese soldier in the ranks, he says, lacks initiative and resourcefulness despite his habit of fighting to death rather than surrender.

Initiative and resourcefulness are what Colonel Carlson has developed to an impressive degree among the men in his unit. He builds teamwork by taking all his men into his confidence and he believes in equality between officers and men in all things except command. "Rank never meant a thing to me," he said. He has the respect of all the men who have fought under his leadership.