1ST BN 1ST MARINES UNIT LOGO NO FURTHER A MYSTERY

“We got in a few hundred yards in in the beach and afterwards the Japanese opened hearth on us,” mentioned Al "Duke" Dellaera, an 18-calendar year-outdated Marine with 1st Marine Division at time, recalling an attack in the early times from the invasion. “We had been ambushed, really astonished. All I observed was debris slipping all over.”