The story seems right out of a 1980s action movie. Here's What You Need to Know: Makin, now known as Butaritari, is a tiny triangular-shaped atoll at the northern tip of the Gilbert Islands. On a stormy night, U.S. Marines set off secretly from submarines to assault a remote island base. They are led by a controversial commander with radical new ideas. And the son of the sitting U.S. president is one of his officers. The Makin raid in 1942 might seem to have the implausible plot of an action movie—and in fact, one year later it would become one! But it was a deadly real for both the American and Japanese troops involved. What was arguably the first combat operation ever undertaken by a U.S. military special forces unit