- United states, marine corps, World war, 1939-1945, naval operations, World war, 1939-1945, campaigns, pacific ocean, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, american
This is a real story of a Marine's ordeal fighting the Japanese in the South Pacific during World Two. Amazing stories reveals what Marine Combat was like during the Island Campaign that took so many lives of Japanese and Americans.
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- Author
- Robert Leckie
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 234
- Publisher
- Independently published, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781070621173
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Robert Leckie (December 18, 1920 – December 24, 2001) was an American author of books on United States military history, fiction, autobiographies, and children's books. As a young man, he served in the Marine Corps with the 1st Marine Division during World War II; his service as a machine gunner and a scout in the war greatly influenced his work.
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