R. Burgin - Islands of the Damned

Seventh Marine Division

First Battalion

Second Battalion

Third Battalion

Seventy-seventh Army Division

710th Tank Battalion

Shanghai

Sharpshooter ranking

Shelton, Merriel “Snafu

Sherman tanks

Shofner, Austin

Shuri Castle, Okinawa

Simon

Sixth Marine Division

Skoczylas, Joseph

Sledge, Eugene “Sledgehammer

Sloan, Bill

Smith, Holland “Howling Mad

Sniper’s Alley, Peleliu

Solomon Islands

Spotter planes

Stallings

Stanley, Thomas “Stumpy

Suicide Creek, New Britain

Suicides

Takabanare

Talasea Peninsula, New Britain

Tanks

Tarawa

Tassafaronga Point, Guadalcanal

TBM Avenger dive-bombers

Tenth Army

Teskevich, John

Third Amphibious Corps

Third Marine Division

Thomas, Patty

321st Regimental Combat Team

Training

Truman, Harry

Tulagi

Twenty-seventh Army Division

Typhoons

Ulithi

Ultimate Battle, The (Sloane)

Umurbrogol Mountains, Peleliu

Uniforms

U.S. Post Office

Ushijima, Mitsuru

USO

USS Colorado

USS Columbus

USS Denver

USS Elmore

USS Franklin

USS Idaho

USS Lavaca

USS Lexington

USS Maryland

USS McCracken

USS Mississippi

USS Mount Vernon

USS Noel Palmer

USS Pennsylvania

USS Sea Runner

USS Tennessee

Veterans Administration

Walt, Lewis

Walt Ridge, Peleliu

Walt’s Ridge, New Britain

Wana Draw, Okinawa

Wana Ridge, Okinawa

Water supply

Wattie Ridge, Peleliu

Wayne, John

Weapons

White Beach One, Peleliu

Wildcat Bowl, Peleliu

Wilson, P. A.

With the Old Breed (Sledge)

Womack, Charlie

Woods, Valton

Works Progress Administration

World War I

Yarborough, Paul R.

Yellow Beach, Okinawa

Yontan airfield, Okinawa

Zeroes

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Burgin, R. V.

Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific/R. V. Burgin with Bill Marvel. p. cm.

eISBN : 978-1-101-19668-7

1. Burgin, R. V. 2. World War, 1939-1945—Campaigns—Pacific Area. 3. World War, 1939-1945—Personal narratives, American. 4. United States. Marine Corps. Regiment, 5th. Battalion, 3rd 5. United States. Marine Corps—Biography. 6. Marines—United States—Biography.

I. Marvel, Bill. II. Title.

D769.3725th .B87 2010

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