The Raid in Popular Culture
- A Hollywood movie depicting the raid was made in 1943, Gung Ho!: The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders.
- The raid on Makin Island was prominently featured in the Treyarch video game Call of Duty: World at War as the first level in the campaign mode.
- The raid on Makin was also featured as a level in the Electronic Arts video game Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault.
- The raid on Makin was also featured in Call To Arms, the second novel of The Corps Series by author W.E.B. Griffin.
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Famous quotes containing the words raid, popular and/or culture:
“Each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate
With shabby equipment always deteriorating
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“For the people in government, rather than the people who pester it, Washington is an early-rising, hard-working city. It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)
“To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind’s wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.”
—Judith Malina (b. 1926)