Full Description
Most Marine and Navy Corpsmen who have seen active combat have, at one time or another, experienced a close call when they were seconds or perhaps inches from death yet survived because of a quick reaction, divine intervention or just plain luck.
From Pearl Harbor to Baghdad, this volume contains the stories of 62 Marines who narrowly escaped death while fighting in America's wars. Inspired by the author's own close call in May 1968, it recounts a great variety of harrowing experiences. Personal background from before and after the close calls provides a more human facet while additional research adds historical information to these fascinating stories of Marines and Navy Corpsmen.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Maps
Preface
PART ONE: WORLD WAR
1. USMC Sergeant John Egan
2. USMC Lieutenant Bob Johnson
3. USMC Private First Class Harry Drendall
4. USMC Private First Class Jack Porter
5. USMC Corporal Earl Dunlap
6. USMC Corporal Andrew Samo
7. USMC Private James Seidler
8. USN Hospital Corpsman First Class Beryl Bonacker
9. USMC Sergeant George Peto
10. USMC Corporal Jim Anderson
11. USN Hospital Corpsman Second Class Benton Corry
12. USMC Private First Class Charles Nichols
13. USMC Private First Class Kenneth Stevens
14. USMC Warrant Officer-1 George Green
15. USMC Private George Smyth
16. USMC Private First Class William Byrd
17. USMC Private First Class Lee Bergee (Part 1 of 2)
PART TWO: KOREA
18. USMC Private First Class Herbert Luster
19. USMC Sergeant Kermit Wilhelm
20. USMC Staff Sergeant Lee Bergee (Part 2 of 2)
21. USMC Sergeant Joe Ohman
22. USMC Corporal Renald Valkenburg
23. USMC Private First Class John Bastian
24. Korea: "Hell Fire Valley"
25. USMC Sergeant Elbert Koonce
26. USMC Sergeant Forest Heistermann
27. USMC Sergeant William Palizzolo
28. USMC Private First Class Richard Aiple
29. USMC Private John Graham
30. USMC Acting Sergeant James Larkin
31. Korea: "Calls of Nature"
PART THREE: VIETNAM
32. USMC Private First Class Bruce Horton
33. USMC Captain John McLaughlin
34. USMC Corporal Robert Simonsen
35. USMC Lance Corporal Arthur Riordan
36. USMC Corporal John Wear II
37. USMC Corporal Jay Vincens
38. USMC Private First Class Mike Stagner
39. USMC Sergeant Ralph Bohannon
PART FOUR: THE WARS AGAINST TERRORISM
40. Beirut: Bombing of the Marine Barracks
41. Iraq: Female Search Force
42. Afghanistan: "The Nightfighters"
43. USMC Gunnery Sergeant Michael Burghardt
44. Iraq: Combat Train One
45. Iraq: Kevlar Helmet Headshots
46. Iraq: Body Armor Shots
47. Iraq: Combat Photographers
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
