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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| List of Maps | |
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| "Making a Man and a Soldier" Genesis of a Marine, 1898-1919 | |
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| "The Great Lessons of Warfare" Haiti, 1919-1921 | |
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| "I Have Some Perseverance" A Junior Officer in Peacetime, 1921-1928 | |
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| "Days of Hard Marching" First Tour in Nicaragua, 1928-1930 | |
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| "The Toughest Proposition" Fort Benning and Nicaragua, 1931-1932 | |
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| "An Exceptionally Confident Officer" On the China Station, 1933-1936 | |
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| "So Very Happy and Contented" Basic School and China Again, 1936-1941 | |
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| "The Enemy Are on the Hill" New River and Samoa, September 1941-August 1942 | |
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| "You're Not Going to Throw These Men Away" The First Weeks on Guadalcanal, September-October 1942 | |
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| "You've Got Bayonets, Haven't You?" The Battle for Henderson Field, October 1942 | |
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| "Evacuate Me, Hell!" Final Days on Guadalcanal, October-December 1942 | |
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| "A Great Deal of Hard Work Ahead" Interlude in the Rear, January-December 1943 | |
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| "Directing the Attack from Forward" Cape Gloucester, December 1943-February 1944 | |
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| "Until the Downfall of the Japanese Empire" Cape Gloucester and Pavuvu, February-August 1944 | |
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| "If There Is Such a Thing as Glory in War" Peleliu, September 1944 | |
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| "Nobody's Got Use for a Combat Man" A Hero Without a War, October 1944-June 1950 | |
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| "A Chance to Excel" The Inchon Landing, June-September 1950 | |
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| "You'll Take a Lot Fewer Casualties" The Seizure of Seoul, September 1950 | |
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| "Not My Way of Fighting a Battle" On to North Korea, October-November 1950 | |
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| "Not All the Chinese in Hell" The Chosin Reservoir, November-December 1950 | |
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| "Befuddled and Disgusted" Central Korea, December 1950-May 1951 | |
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| "I Hope I Don't Get Hung" Training and Experimenting, May 1951-June 1952 | |
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| "A School Teacher's Job" Training Other Men for War, June 1952-May 1954 | |
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| "Go Down Slugging" Last Days in the Corps, June 1954-October 1955 | |
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| "Never Forget the Battles of the Past" The Golden Years, 1955-1960 | |
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| "Return with Your Shield or on It" The Twilight Years, 1960-1971 | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Note on Sources | |
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| Source Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |