One of the defining images of World War II continues to be trailed by controversy.
Art Buchwald recalled how the Marine Corps tried to make a man out of him during World War II. Years later, he poignantly reunited with the drill instructor who had disciplined him day and night.
Paul Douglas was 50 years old when he left a career in politics to join the Marines at the outset of World War II, earning Purple Hearts at Peleliu and Okinawa.
Fifty years ago in the frozen mountains of Korea, the Marines endured a campaign as grueling and heroic as any in history.
A TEXAS MARINE WHO DREW BEAUTIFULLY AND WROTE AS WELL AS HE DREW BECAME THE LAUREATE OF THE MEN WHO CHECKED THE LAST GREAT GERMAN OFFENSIVE. ALL BUT FORGOTTEN TODAY, HIS 1926 BESTSELLER REMAINS PERHAPS THE FINEST ACCOUNT OF AMERICANS IN THE GREAT WAR.
A former Marine recalls the grim defense of Guadalcanal in 1942
Years after one of the bloodiest and most intense battles of the war in the Pacific, a Marine Corps veteran returns to Tarawa
A marine correspondent recalls the deadliest battle of the Pacific war
A Marine Remembers the Battle for Belleau Wood
So thought many a weary Marine after the bloody, interminable battle for Guadalcanal. It was only a dot in the ocean, but upon its possession turned the entire course of the Pacific war
The Corps is supposed to be tough, and is. This often confounds its enemies and sometimes irritates the nation’s other services