The Marine Raiders were built to do what the Corps had never formally trained for — strike fast, light, and deep. On the night of 12 September 1942, Lieutenant Colonel Merritt "Red Mike" Edson's 1st Raider Battalion dug in along a low coral spine south of Henderson Field on Guadalcanal. Over two nights General Kawaguchi's brigade threw itself at the line; the Raiders, worn down to a few hundred men, held what became Bloody Ridge and saved the airfield. Edson took the Medal of Honor. By the time this Raider's frog-skin utilities reached 1943, that fight had already defined what the battalions were for.

W. Britain poses the Raider standing and alert, the M1928 Thompson held across the body with its 100-round drum fitted and a pouch of spare 20-round stick magazines on the belt beside a holstered M1911A1. The reversible M1942 utilities show their five-color jungle face — green and brown blotches meant to break up the outline under triple canopy. He drops straight into a Guadalcanal or jungle-patrol diorama alongside Chesty Puller, whose 7th Marines fought the same campaign, a Marine with SCR-300 radio calling in support, and the rifleman Eugene Sledge of the later island fights.

W. Britain model 13055. 1/30 scale (approximately 60mm), solid metal hand-painted in a matte finish. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Supplied in original W. Britain packaging.