Snapshot · The Shawn Ryan Show
The original GI Joe doll was created by Hasbro in honor of Marine Mitchell Page for his actions on Guadalcanal, which Clark discovered while researching Gunner's Glory.
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The research for Gunner's Glory leads Clark to Ted Elliston — a 5th Marines Guadalcanal veteran who punched a man out cold in the street at age 84 — and through Ted to Mitchell Page, the Marine Hasbro commemorated as the original GI Joe [1] — Johnnie Clark "At a turning point in the Battle of Guadalcanal, every Marine machine gunner was dead or wounded. Marine Mitchell Page raced a Japanese sol…" 2:42:10 . Page's deathbed account, which Clark believes completely after his own parallel experience, describes the climactic moment of the Battle of Guadalcanal: every Marine machine gunner is dead, the Mahoney gun — modified to fire 900 to 1,200 rounds per minute — sits unattended, and a Japanese soldier with a Nambu races Page to the gun. The Japanese soldier wins the footrace, drops to the ground, and empties 30 rounds at point-blank range. Page is frozen, unable to move or even think. He feels complete peace. Not a single bullet hits him. The moment his enemy's clip is exhausted, Page is released, falls forward, chambers a round, and kills the soldier. His Bible falls open to Proverbs 3:5 — the verse his mother sent him to war with.
At a turning point in the Battle of Guadalcanal, every Marine machine gunner was dead or wounded. Marine Mitchell Page raced a Japanese soldier to the last operational gun. The enemy dropped to the ground and fired 30 rounds at point-blank range — and Page couldn't move. He felt total peace and complete paralysis. Not one round hit him. The moment his enemy's clip was empty, Page was released, chambered a round, and killed the soldier. He later told Clark this story on his deathbed.
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