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Faith, William Robert.
Bob Hope: A Life in Comedy.
G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York City, 1982.
 
Hallas, James H.
The Devil’s Anvil: The Assault on Peleliu.
Praeger, Westport, Connecticut, 1994.
 
Hope, Bob, with Linda Hope.
My Life in Jokes.
Hyperion, New York City, 2003.
Hough, Major Frank O., USMCR.
The Assault on Peleliu.
Historic Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, Washington, D.C., 1950; reprint: The Battery Press, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee, 2000.
 
MacMillan, George. “They Called It a Rest Camp: The First Marine Division on Pavuvu.”
Harper’s
, October, 1949, pp. 36-45.
 
Moran, Jim, and Gordon L. Rottman.
Peleliu 1944: The Forgotten Corner of Hell.
Campaign Series #110. Osprey Publishing, New York City, 2002.
 
Phillips, Sidney C., M.D.
“You’ll Be Sor-ree!”
Artcraft Press, Mobile, Alabama, 2001.
 
Pollins, Perry.
Tales of a Feather Merchant: The World War II Memoir of a Marine Radioman.
Merriam Press, Bennington, Vermont, 2008.
 
Sledge, E. B.
With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa.
Ballantine Books, New York City, 2007.
 
Wright, Derrick.
To the Far Side of Hell: The Battle for Peleliu, 1944.
University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2005.
OKINAWA
Leckie, Robert.
Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II.
Viking Penguin, New York City, 1996.
 
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.
Index
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
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

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