R. Burgin - Islands of the Damned

Rottman, Gordon. Okinawa 1945: The Last Battle. Praeger Illustrated Military History Series, Praeger Publishers, Westport, Connecticut, 2002.

Sloan, Bill. The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945—The Last Epic Struggle of World War II . Simon & Schuster, New York City, 2007.

Air burst

Alsace-Lorraine

Amtracs

Angaur

Aogiri Ridge, New Britain

Armed Forces Radio service

Ash, Robert

Atabrine tablets

Atomic bomb

Atrocities

Australians

Avenger dive-bombers

Awa River, Okinawa

Awacha Pocket, Okinawa

Awacha Ridge, Okinawa

B-24s

Babelthuap

Bailey, Paul

Baldy, Peleliu

Banika

Banzai charges

BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle)

Bataan Death March

Bayonets

Bender, Harry

B. F. Shaw

Bishi Gawa River, Okinawa

Bismarck Sea

Bitokara, New Britain

Bloody Nose Ridge, Peleliu

Blue Beach, Okinawa

Body odor

Borgen Bay, New Britain

Bougainville

Boyd Ridge, Peleliu

Boyes, Hank

Buckner, Simon Bolivar

Burgin, Beulah May Perry

Burgin, Bobby

Burgin, Edgar

Burgin, Florence Risely

children of

letters with R.V.

marriage of

meeting and courtship with R.V. in Melbourne

travel to U.S.

Burgin, George

Burgin, Ila

Burgin, Joseph Delton “J. D.,”

Burgin, Joseph Harmon

Burgin, Margaret Ann

Burgin, R. V.

arrest of

birth of

at boot camp

Bronze Star awarded to

childhood of

children of

early jobs of

education of

family of

Florence and ( see Burgin, Florence Risely)

joins Marines

on liberty

malaria and

in Marines ( see K Company Mortars (K/3/5))

marriage of

promotions of

return to U.S.

sports and

training of

at U.S. Post Office

wounded

Burgin, Remus

Burgin, Romus

Burgin, Terrie Lee

Burgin, Vanessa Jo

Burgin, Vicki Lynn

Burke, Jim

Camp Balcombe

Camp Elliott

Camp Pendleton

Cape Gloucester, New Britain

Caswell, Ken

Catlettsburg, Kentucky

Chimu Wan Bay

China

China Wall, Peleliu

Cho, Isamu

Christmas Island

Cigarettes

Cleanliness, tradition of

Coconuts

Colonna, Jerry

Corregidor Island

Corsairs

Cotton crop

Crosby, Bing

Cummings, Clyde “Tex,”

Curtis Commando cargo planes

Dakeshi Ridge, Okinawa

Darsey, Maurice “Mo,”

Darwin, Australia

Dauntless dive-bombers

Day, Jim

DDT

Dead Man’s Curve, Peleliu

Death Valley, Peleliu

del Valle, Pedro

Diamond, Lou

Diarrhea

Dogs

Dog tags

Dorsey, Tommy

Draft

Duebner, Bill

DUKWs

Dysentery

East China Sea

Eighth Marine Division

Eighty-first Army Division (“Wildcat” Division)

Eleventh Artillery Regiment

Espirito Santo

Expert ranking

Fifth Marine Division

First Battalion

Second Battalion

Third Battalion

Fiji

First Marine Division

First Marine Division, Fifth Regiment

First Battalion

Second Battalion

Third Battalion

Third Battalion, K Company Mortars (K/3/5) ( see K Company Mortars (K/3/5))

First Marine Division, First Regiment

Five Brothers, Peleliu

Five Sisters, Peleliu

Flame, Al

Flamethrowers

Fleas

Flies

Food supplies

Formosa

.45 pistol

Forty-sixth Replacement Battalion

Fourth Marine Division

Fouts, Peter

Friendly fire

Friendship School, Jewett

Geglein, Andrew

Geiger, Roy S.

Gentian violet

Goannas

Goodenough Island

Grable, Betty

Grasshoppers ( see Spotter planes)

Great Depression

Guadalcanal

Guam

Gustafson, John

Haldane, Andrew Allison “Ack-Ack,”

death of

Halsey, William F. “Bull,”

Hammocks

Haney, Elmo

Hankins, Joseph

Hara-kiri

Harris, Harold “Bucky,”

Hayes, Gabby

Hellcat fighters

Henderson Field, Guadalcanal

Hendricks, Ted

Higgins boats

Hill 55, Okinawa

Hill 100, Peleliu

Hill 100A, Peleliu

Hill 120, Peleliu

Hill 140, Peleliu

Hill 150, New Britain

Hill 660, New Britain

Hip pocket artillery

Hizoanna, Okinawa

Holiday celebrations

Honolulu

Hope, Bob

Horseshoe, Peleliu

Howard, Lonnie

Hudson, T. L. “Peaches

Hull, Ed

In Old Oklahoma (movie)

Iwo Jima

Japanese aircraft

Japanese main islands

Jewett, Texas

Jones, Edward A. “Hillbilly

death of

Jungle juice

Jungle rot

K Company Mortars (K/3/5)

on New Britain

on Ngesebus

on Okinawa

on Pavuvu

on Peleliu

reunions of

on Takabanare

on Talasea

Kadena airfield, Okinawa

Kamikaze attacks

Katz, Wesley

Kehoe, R. F., Jr.

Knee mortars

Korean War

Kornaizl, Jim

Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa

Kwajalein

Kyushu

Land crabs

Langford, Frances

LCIs (Landing Craft, Infantry)

LCMs

Legs, Lieutenant

Lewis, William

Leyden, Bill

Loveday, George

LSMs (Landing Ship, Medium)

LSTs (Landing Ship, Tank)

M1 rifle

M2 60mm mortar

MacArthur, Douglas

Mackenzie, Robert “Scotty

Macquitti Bay, Pavuvu

Malaria

Malaya

Mallory, Frank

Malone, Claude

Manchuria

Marine Corps Globe and Anchor

Marine Handbook

Marksman ranking

Marmet, Johnny

Matheny, Tom

McCarthy, Robert

McDougal, David

McEnery, Jim

Melbourne, Australia

Middlebrook, Bill

Miller, Fred

Miller, Glenn

Milne Bay, New Guinea

Mindanao, Philippines

Mines

Moore, Doc

Moran, Doris

Mortar squad, described

Mosquitoes

Motubu, Okinawa

Mount Martha

Naha, Okinawa

Nakagawa, Kunio

Nakagusuku Bay, Okinawa

Napalm

Native populations

Nease, Howard

New Britain

New Caledonia

New Guinea

Ngesebus Island

Night-vision scopes

Nimitz, Chester

Ninety-sixth Army Division

Ninth Replacement Brigade

Norman (machine gunner)

Number 13 amtrac

Numundo Plantation, New Britain

Officer Candidates School (OCS)

Okinawa

Old Breed Award

106th Regiment, Twenty-seventh Infantry Division

Orange Beach One, Peleliu

Orange Beach Three, Peleliu

Orange Beach Two, Peleliu

Oro Bay, New Guinea

Oswalt, Robert

Pavuvu

Pearl Harbor

Peleliu

Phosphorus shells

Pocket, the, Peleliu

Point, the, Peleliu

Poker games

Port Melbourne, Australia

Port Philip Bay

Porter, Leslie

PT boats

Puller, Lewis “Chesty

Purple Beach, Okinawa

Purple Beach, Peleliu

Quinine

Rabaul, New Britain

Raider (machine-gun sergeant)

Rats

Red Cross girls

Redifer, John

Ridge 3, Peleliu

Rifles

Risely, Florence ( see Burgin, Florence Risely)

Romano, Tony

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Royal Melbourne Hospital

Rupertus, William

Rural Electrification

Russell Islands

Ryukyus

Saipan

Salsby, David Burton Augustus

Salt tablets

Saltpeter

Santos, Vincent

Sarrett, George

Saunders, W. R.

Schelgren, Barbara

Schelgren, Ernest

Seabees

Second Marine Division

Seventh Army Division