It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read We Were Going to Win, Or Die There by Roy H. Elrod
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In 1940, native West Texan Roy H. Elrod joined the Marine Corps. A few years later his unit, the 8th Marine Regiment, went into the fight at Guadalcanal, where he commanded a platoon of 37 mm gunners. They endured Japanese attacks, malarial tropical weather, and starvation rations. His combat leadership earned him a Silver Star and a battlefield promotion. On D-Day at Tarawa his platoon waded their 37 mm cannons ashore, each weighing nearly 1,000 pounds, through half a mile of bullet-laced surf to get to an island where the killing never stopped. His was the only platoon to get its guns...
We Were Going to Win, Or Die There by Roy H. Elrod is 336 pages long, and a total of 86,016 words.
This makes it 113% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read We Were Going to Win, Or Die There aloud.
We Were Going to Win, Or Die There is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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