by Jim McEnery
Umurbrogol Plateau (Peleliu), 216–18, 225, 235–37, 246–66, 269
USS Astoria (ship), 55
USS Atlanta (ship), 130
USS Balduck (ship), 146
USS Chicago (ship), 55
USS Colhoun, 85
USS Columbus (ship); 238.
USS Denver (ship); 238.
USS Elmore (ship), 181, 183, 187
USS Enterprise (ship), 100, 129, 131
USS George Elliott (ship), 48
USS Hornet (ship), 100, 129
USS Jarvis (ship), 55
USS Juneau (ship), 130
USS McCauley (ship), 54
USS Mississippi (ship); 238.
USS Missouri (ship), 291
USS North Carolina (ship), 100
USS O’Brien (ship), 100
USS Patterson (ship), 55
USS President Jackson (ship), 137, 139
USS Quincy (ship), 55
USS Ralph Talbot (ship), 55
USS San Francisco (ship), 130
USS South Dakota (ship), 129, 132
USS Vincennes (ship), 55
USS Wakefield (ship), 44, 45
USS Washington (ship), 129, 132
USS Wasp (ship), 100, 129
USS West Point (ship), 141
USS Wharton (ship), 276, 277
USS Zeilin (ship), 130
Van Trump, Richard, 243
Vandegrift, Alexander A.: Battle of Tenaru River and, 83
Bushido fighting and, 84
as commander of First Marine Division, 44–45
commendation for Marine fliers by, 78
Edson’s Raiders and, 91
First Marine Division in Australia and, 140
and importance of Guadalcanal campaign, 136
landing on Guadalcanal and, 4
and Marines at Japanese surrender on USS Missouri, 291
Matanikau River battles and, 75, 115
orders relief of Fifth Marine Division, 132
Rupertus takes over command of First Marine Division from, 148
Savo Island battle and, 54
trip to Guadalcanal of, 44–45
turns over Guadalcanal command to Patch, 135
Vets Helping Vets, 287
Wake Island, 44, 82, 291
Walt, Lewis W. “Silent Lew,” 168, 214, 245, 251
Walt’s Ridge (Cape Gloucester), 168, 169, 171
Walt’s Ridge (Peleliu), 251
“Waltzing Matilda” (song), 184
“washing-machine Charlie,” 60, 77
water. See food/water
Wellington, New Zealand; Fifth Marines in training at, 45
Wells, Captain, 121, 122
Whaling, William J., 106, 107
Whittier, Hank, 287
Williams, Charles, 254
Wilson, Dean, 82
With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa (Sledge), 192, 287
women; rumor about Japanese capture of, 62–63
World War I: aerial combat in, 101, 102
Fifth Marines in, 40
Haney in, 188, 189, 198
K/3/5 in, 198
leftover equipment from, 43
MacArthur’s comments about Marines in, 138
Rickenbacker record in, 101
World War II: beginning of, 33–34
most tragic day for K/3/5, 262–64. See also specific topic
Young & Jackson’s Pub (Australia), 141–42
Zimmerman, John, 136
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