“Apprehension about recruit training: The Marines knack of having their trains arrive at night, some training officers were fatherly in their approach, most Drill Instructors were anything but…”

Before the First Wave: The 3rd Armored Amphibian Tractor Battalion, Larry L. Woodard (1994)

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“Marine stretcher bearers carrying a wounded man along a trail, soon Japanese fire picked them up and the men dropped the stretcher and ran for a nearby swamp the wounded man beat them to the swamp.”

Lt. Ernest Hale, USMC (September1944) Battle for Peleliu