News "Marine Gets Past Enemy Patrol"
"The following report by 2nd Lt. H. L. Merillat, Marine Corps Public Relations Officer in the Solomons, gives details of an interview with Richard Ronald Amerine, U.S.M.C. whose escape through enemy patrol lines after he had parachuted into the sea near the north end of Guadalcanal was disclosed in recent press dispatches from the island. Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, September 6 (delayed) - A forced parachute jump, a 4 mile swim in the Coral Sea, 7 days in the Japanese infested northern tip of Guadalcanal, and a 50 mile hike through the bush left Lt. Richard Ronald Amerine, Marine Corps pilot of Lawrence, Kans., weak and suffering from exposure but still smiling when he staggered into a Marine outpost today."
Credit: USMC Date: September 6, 1942
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