Title We were going to win, or die there : with the Marines at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Saipan / by Lieutenant Colonel Roy H. Elrod, USMC ; edited by Fred H. Allison

Published Denton : University of North Texas Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource Series North Texas military biography and memoir series ; no. 10 North Texas military biography and memoir series ; no. 10. Contents Preface; Introduction; Chapter One: Muleshoe to Texas A & M: Growing Up in Texas, 1920s and 1930s; Chapter Two: The Old Corps: USMC Boot Camp, 1940-1941; Chapter Three: Eighth Marines: Preparing to Fight; Chapter Four: Exotic Samoa: Defending the Southern Lifeline; Chapter Five: Guadalcanal: We Were Living Like Animals; Photo Gallery; Chapter Six: New Zealand: Paradise Found; Chapter Seven: Tarawa: Hell Realized; Chapter Eight: Hawaii: Recovery and Preparing for the Next Show; Chapter Nine: Saipan: "We Were There to Kill Japs"; Chapter Ten: Death Came Near: Wounded and Recovery Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Elrod, Roy H., 1919-2016. United States. Marine Corps. Marine Regiment, 8th -- Biography SUBJECT United States. Marine Corps. Marine Regiment, 8th fast Subject Marines -- United States -- Biography World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean -- Personal narratives, American Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943 -- Personal narratives, American Tarawa, Battle of, Kiribati, 1943 -- Personal narratives, American Saipan, Battle of, Northern Mariana Islands, 1944 -- Personal narratives, American BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. Marines Military campaigns Kiribati Northern Mariana Islands Pacific Ocean Solomon Islands United States Genre/Form Biographies Personal narratives Form Electronic book Author Allison, Fred H., 1950- editor. ISBN 9781574417005 1574417002

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