by John McCain
American Expeditionary Force in, 167–70, 182–83, 185
American tank corps in, 185
in Argonne Forest, 189
Battle for Belleau Wood, 170–75, 178–81
Battle of Blanc Mont Ridge, 185–88, 190
end of, 191
in Flanders, 168–69, 181, 185
Four Aces (runners) in, 183–84, 187
Hindenburg Line, 189–90
medics and corpsmen in, 294–95
Meuse-Argonne Offensive, 185–91
Operation Michael, 168
Saint-Mihiel salient, 184–85
Second Battle of the Marne, 181–83
Third Battle of the Aisne, 169
turning points in, 181, 183
World War II, 193–218
in Argonne Forest, 189
Battle for the Marianas, 202
Battle of Leyte Gulf, 207
Battle of Saipan, 193–94, 196, 198, 201, 202–8, 212–16
Battle of the Philippine Sea, 207
Battle of Tinian, 201, 207, 212, 216
and Beito, 194–96
first multidivisional landing in, 196
and “the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot,” 207
and Guadalcanal, 194, 196, 237
and Guam, 201, 202, 207
invasion of Tarawa, 194–96
Japanese American internments in, 198–99
in Marianas, 194, 201, 206–7
in Marshall Islands, 194, 196, 200–201
Navy combat demolition units in, 323
Operation A-Go, 207
Operation Forager, 201
Operation Galvanic, 194
and Palau Islands, 201, 207
and Pearl Harbor, 198
Suicide Cliff, 214–16
at Tarawa, 203
Worth, William Jenkins, 65–67, 72, 73
Wounded Knee, massacre at, 124, 154
Wright, Horatio, 111
York, Alvin, 294
Young, Samuel, 120, 130
Zarqawi, Abu Musab al-, 319, 329, 332
Zilmer, Richard, 331
PHOTO CREDITS
Brown & Bigelow, Inc., Saint Paul, Minnesota
Courtesy of the Maryland Historical Society
From Massachusetts in the War, 1861–1865 by James L. Bowen. Published by C.W. Bryan & Co.
Lieutenant Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., by Silsbee, Case & Co., 1861, Record ID: olvwork354100 copy 3, Historical & Special Collections, Harvard Law School Library
United States Army
National Archives photo no. 127-G-119Q-516899
Elton Mackin Collection, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
Scott Beveridge, Observer-Reporter
AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool
Courtesy of the Monsoor family and the U.S. Navy
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McCain, John.
Thirteen soldiers : a personal history of Americans at war / John McCain and Mark Salter.
p. cm.
1. Soldiers—United States—Biography. 2. United States. Army— Biography. 3. Military biography—United States. I. Salter, Mark. II. Title. U52.M39 2014
355.0092'273—dc23 2014021473
ISBN 978-1-4767-5965-4
ISBN 978-1-4767-5967-8 (ebook)
