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U.S. Marine Sergeant Rocky Sickmann: A Hostage Remembers

by David Lauterborn10/1/20182/28/2022

Visiting Peleliu: A Shortcut to 1944

by William R. Coulson8/23/20188/18/2022

WWII Review: National Museum of the Marine Corps

by Ernest B. Furgurson8/16/2018

Col. Dave Severance, Company Commander of Easy Company of the 28th Marines, 5th Marine Division, became associated with a historic moment in American history on Feb. 23, 1945, when he responded to orders from his battalion commander to send a patrol to Mount Suribachi, the highest summit on the island described by Marine Lt. Gen. Holland M. “Howlin’ Mad” Smith as a “grim, smoking rock.” Following orders from the battalion commander, the platoon hoisted an American flag on the summit. But it wasn’t the famed image captured by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal. The Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal, upon seeing the first flag raised on Mount Suribachi, wanted to keep it as a memento. Thus a second larger flag was raised to replace it, which Rosenthal went on to document to much acclaim. (USMC)

What If the Marines Had Skipped Iwo Jima?

by Mark Grimsley8/8/20186/16/2022

Vietnam Book Review: The First Marine Captured in Vietnam

by Carl O. Schuster7/24/2018

Fire for Effect: Inertia in the Solomons

by Robert M. Citino7/9/20183/31/2024

How “Catkillers” in a Bullet-Riddled Cessna Turned Back an NVA Attack on a Base Near the DMZ

by Paul X. Rutz7/7/20186/27/2022

Korea’s Myth-Making Marines

by James F. Durand6/7/2018

Marine Generals Discuss Lessons Learned at Hue, 1968

by Valerie O’Berry5/25/2018

Marines Caught in a Viet Cong Noose

by Franklin Cox4/12/2018