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M.J. Evans
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The Sand Pounder
History
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Have You Ever Heard of the Sand Pounders?
I grew up in Oregon and my father, who served briefly in WWII, often took us to Fort Stevens on the coast. That was the site that was shelled by the Japanese during the war. He told me about the war but he never mentioned the Sand Pounders. Perhaps if he had been a horseman, he would have. Not-so-fast-forward fifty years and I stumbled across them purely by accident when searching for unusual horse stories. I was fortunate to be able to acquire a recently declassified report that the Coast Guard had filed so many, many years before. I think you'll find the information in my historical fiction very interesting!
Book Excerpt
The Sand Pounder
ON PATROL From 1942 to 1944 during WWII, the United States Coast Guard Mounted Beach Patrol covered more than 3,700 miles of coastline on both coasts and employed about 24,000 men. Patrols on horseback worked in pairs, riding roughly a hundred feet apart, usually covering a two-mile stretch. They were called Sand Pounders and were able to cover difficult terrain quickly and efficiently. This book is dedicated to those men and their wonderful horses.
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