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Islands of the Damned

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by R. V. Burgin


  Sledge, E. B. With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa. Ballantine Books, New York City, 2007.

  Wright, Derrick. To the Far Side of Hell: The Battle for Peleliu, 1944. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2005.

  OKINAWA

  Leckie, Robert. Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II. Viking Penguin, New York City, 1996.

  Rottman, Gordon. Okinawa 1945: The Last Battle. Praeger Illustrated Military History Series, Praeger Publishers, Westport, Connecticut, 2002.

  Sloan, Bill. The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945—The Last Epic Struggle of World War II. Simon & Schuster, New York City, 2007.

  Index

  Air burst

  Alsace-Lorraine

  Amtracs

  Angaur

  Aogiri Ridge, New Britain

  Armed Forces Radio service

  Ash, Robert

  Atabrine tablets

  Atomic bomb

  Atrocities

  Australians

  Avenger dive-bombers

  Awa River, Okinawa

  Awacha Pocket, Okinawa

  Awacha Ridge, Okinawa

  B-24s

  Babelthuap

  Bailey, Paul

  Baldy, Peleliu

  Banika

  Banzai charges

  BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle)

  Bataan Death March

  Bayonets

  Bender, Harry

  B. F. Shaw

  Bishi Gawa River, Okinawa

  Bismarck Sea

  Bitokara, New Britain

  Bloody Nose Ridge, Peleliu

  Blue Beach, Okinawa

  Body odor

  Borgen Bay, New Britain

  Bougainville

  Boyd Ridge, Peleliu

  Boyes, Hank

  Buckner, Simon Bolivar

  Burgin, Beulah May Perry

  Burgin, Bobby

  Burgin, Edgar

  Burgin, Florence Risely

  children of

  letters with R.V.

  marriage of

  meeting and courtship with R.V. in Melbourne

  travel to U.S.

  Burgin, George

  Burgin, Ila

  Burgin, Joseph Delton “J. D.,”

  Burgin, Joseph Harmon

  Burgin, Margaret Ann

  Burgin, R. V.

  arrest of

  birth of

  at boot camp

  Bronze Star awarded to

  childhood of

  children of

  early jobs of

  education of

  family of

  Florence and (see Burgin, Florence Risely)

  joins Marines

  on liberty

  malaria and

  in Marines (see K Company Mortars (K/3/5))

  marriage of

  promotions of

  return to U.S.

  sports and

  training of

  at U.S. Post Office

  wounded

  Burgin, Remus

  Burgin, Romus

  Burgin, Terrie Lee

  Burgin, Vanessa Jo

  Burgin, Vicki Lynn

  Burke, Jim

  Camp Balcombe

  Camp Elliott

  Camp Pendleton

  Cape Gloucester, New Britain

  Caswell, Ken

  Catlettsburg, Kentucky

  Chimu Wan Bay

  China

  China Wall, Peleliu

  Cho, Isamu

  Christmas Island

  Cigarettes

  Cleanliness, tradition of

  Coconuts

  Colonna, Jerry

  Corregidor Island

  Corsairs

  Cotton crop

  Crosby, Bing

  Cummings, Clyde “Tex,”

  Curtis Commando cargo planes

  Dakeshi Ridge, Okinawa

  Darsey, Maurice “Mo,”

  Darwin, Australia

  Dauntless dive-bombers

  Day, Jim

  DDT

  Dead Man’s Curve, Peleliu

  Death Valley, Peleliu

  del Valle, Pedro

  Diamond, Lou

  Diarrhea

  Dogs

  Dog tags

  Dorsey, Tommy

  Draft

  Duebner, Bill

  DUKWs

  Dysentery

  East China Sea

  Eighth Marine Division

  Eighty-first Army Division (“Wildcat” Division)

  Eleventh Artillery Regiment

  Espirito Santo

  Expert ranking

  Fifth Marine Division

  First Battalion

  Second Battalion

  Third Battalion

  Fiji

  First Marine Division

  First Marine Division, Fifth Regiment

  First Battalion

  Second Battalion

  Third Battalion

  Third Battalion, K Company Mortars (K/3/5) (see K Company Mortars (K/3/5))

  First Marine Division, First Regiment

  Five Brothers, Peleliu

  Five Sisters, Peleliu

  Flame, Al

  Flamethrowers

  Fleas

  Flies

  Food supplies

  Formosa

  .45 pistol

  Forty-sixth Replacement Battalion

  Fourth Marine Division

  Fouts, Peter

  Friendly fire

  Friendship School, Jewett

  Geglein, Andrew

  Geiger, Roy S.

  Gentian violet

  Goannas

  Goodenough Island

  Grable, Betty

  Grasshoppers (see Spotter planes)

  Great Depression

  Guadalcanal

  Guam

  Gustafson, John

  Haldane, Andrew Allison “Ack-Ack,”

  death of

  Halsey, William F. “Bull,”

  Hammocks

  Haney, Elmo

  Hankins, Joseph

  Hara-kiri

  Harris, Harold “Bucky,”

  Hayes, Gabby

  Hellcat fighters

  Henderson Field, Guadalcanal

  Hendricks, Ted

  Higgins boats

  Hill 55, Okinawa

  Hill 100, Peleliu

  Hill 100A, Peleliu

  Hill 120, Peleliu

  Hill 140, Peleliu

  Hill 150, New Britain

  Hill 660, New Britain

  Hip pocket artillery

  Hizoanna, Okinawa

  Holiday celebrations

  Honolulu

  Hope, Bob

  Horseshoe, Peleliu

  Howard, Lonnie

  Hudson, T. L. “Peaches

  Hull, Ed

  In Old Oklahoma (movie)

  Iwo Jima

  Japanese aircraft

  Japanese main islands

  Jewett, Texas

  Jones, Edward A. “Hillbilly

  death of

  Jungle juice

  Jungle rot

  K Company Mortars (K/3/5)

  on New Britain

  on Ngesebus

  on Okinawa

  on Pavuvu

  on Peleliu

  reunions of

  on Takabanare

  on Talasea

  Kadena airfield, Okinawa

  Kamikaze attacks

  Katz, Wesley

  Kehoe, R. F., Jr.

  Knee mortars

  Korean War

  Kornaizl, Jim

  Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa

  Kwajalein

  Kyushu

  Land crabs

  Langford, Frances

  LCIs (Landing Craft, Infantry)

  LCMs

  Legs, Lieutenant

  Lewis, William

  Leyden, Bill

  Loveday, George

  LSMs (Landing Ship, Medium)

  LSTs (Landing Ship, Tank)

  M1 rifle
r />   M2 60mm mortar

  MacArthur, Douglas

  Mackenzie, Robert “Scotty

  Macquitti Bay, Pavuvu

  Malaria

  Malaya

  Mallory, Frank

  Malone, Claude

  Manchuria

  Marine Corps Globe and Anchor

  Marine Handbook

  Marksman ranking

  Marmet, Johnny

  Matheny, Tom

  McCarthy, Robert

  McDougal, David

  McEnery, Jim

  Melbourne, Australia

  Middlebrook, Bill

  Miller, Fred

  Miller, Glenn

  Milne Bay, New Guinea

  Mindanao, Philippines

  Mines

  Moore, Doc

  Moran, Doris

  Mortar squad, described

  Mosquitoes

  Motubu, Okinawa

  Mount Martha

  Naha, Okinawa

  Nakagawa, Kunio

  Nakagusuku Bay, Okinawa

  Napalm

  Native populations

  Nease, Howard

  New Britain

  New Caledonia

  New Guinea

  Ngesebus Island

  Night-vision scopes

  Nimitz, Chester

  Ninety-sixth Army Division

  Ninth Replacement Brigade

  Norman (machine gunner)

  Number 13 amtrac

  Numundo Plantation, New Britain

  Officer Candidates School (OCS)

  Okinawa

  Old Breed Award

  106th Regiment, Twenty-seventh Infantry Division

  Orange Beach One, Peleliu

  Orange Beach Three, Peleliu

  Orange Beach Two, Peleliu

  Oro Bay, New Guinea

  Oswalt, Robert

  Pavuvu

  Pearl Harbor

  Peleliu

  Phosphorus shells

  Pocket, the, Peleliu

  Point, the, Peleliu

  Poker games

  Port Melbourne, Australia

  Port Philip Bay

  Porter, Leslie

  PT boats

  Puller, Lewis “Chesty

  Purple Beach, Okinawa

  Purple Beach, Peleliu

  Quinine

  Rabaul, New Britain

  Raider (machine-gun sergeant)

  Rats

  Red Cross girls

  Redifer, John

  Ridge 3, Peleliu

  Rifles

  Risely, Florence (see Burgin, Florence Risely)

  Romano, Tony

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Royal Melbourne Hospital

  Rupertus, William

  Rural Electrification

  Russell Islands

  Ryukyus

  Saipan

  Salsby, David Burton Augustus

  Salt tablets

  Saltpeter

  Santos, Vincent

  Sarrett, George

  Saunders, W. R.

  Schelgren, Barbara

  Schelgren, Ernest

  Seabees

  Second Marine Division

  Seventh Army Division

  Seventh Marine Division

  First Battalion

  Second Battalion

  Third Battalion

  Seventy-seventh Army Division

  710th Tank Battalion

  Shanghai

  Sharpshooter ranking

  Shelton, Merriel “Snafu

  Sherman tanks

  Shofner, Austin

  Shuri Castle, Okinawa

  Simon

  Sixth Marine Division

  Skoczylas, Joseph

  Sledge, Eugene “Sledgehammer

  Sloan, Bill

  Smith, Holland “Howling Mad

  Sniper’s Alley, Peleliu

  Solomon Islands

  Spotter planes

  Stallings

  Stanley, Thomas “Stumpy

  Suicide Creek, New Britain

  Suicides

  Takabanare

  Talasea Peninsula, New Britain

  Tanks

  Tarawa

  Tassafaronga Point, Guadalcanal

  TBM Avenger dive-bombers

  Tenth Army

  Teskevich, John

  Third Amphibious Corps

  Third Marine Division

  Thomas, Patty

  321st Regimental Combat Team

  Training

  Truman, Harry

  Tulagi

  Twenty-seventh Army Division

  Typhoons

  Ulithi

  Ultimate Battle, The (Sloane)

  Umurbrogol Mountains, Peleliu

  Uniforms

  U.S. Post Office

  Ushijima, Mitsuru

  USO

  USS Colorado

  USS Columbus

  USS Denver

  USS Elmore

  USS Franklin

  USS Idaho

  USS Lavaca

  USS Lexington

  USS Maryland

  USS McCracken

  USS Mississippi

  USS Mount Vernon

  USS Noel Palmer

  USS Pennsylvania

  USS Sea Runner

  USS Tennessee

  Veterans Administration

  Walt, Lewis

  Walt Ridge, Peleliu

  Walt’s Ridge, New Britain

  Wana Draw, Okinawa

  Wana Ridge, Okinawa

  Water supply

  Wattie Ridge, Peleliu

  Wayne, John

  Weapons

  White Beach One, Peleliu

  Wildcat Bowl, Peleliu

  Wilson, P. A.

  With the Old Breed (Sledge)

  Womack, Charlie

  Woods, Valton

  Works Progress Administration

  World War I

  Yarborough, Paul R.

  Yellow Beach, Okinawa

  Yontan airfield, Okinawa

  Zeroes

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