_DIRECTOR OF MARINE CORPS HISTORY AND MUSEUMS_
Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons, USMC (Ret)
_GENERAL EDITOR._
_WORLD WAR II COMMEMORATIVE SERIES_
Benis M. Frank
_CARTOGRAPHIC CONSULTANT_
George C. MacGillivray
_EDITING AND DESIGN SECTION, HISTORY AND MUSEUMS DIVISION_
Robert E. Struder, Senior Editor; W. Stephen Hill, Visual Information
Specialist; Catherine A. Kerns, Composition Services Technician
Marine Corps Historical Center
Building 58, Washington Navy Yard
Washington, D.C. 20374-5040
1994
PCN 190 003128 00
Transcriber Notes:
Passages in italics were indicated by _underscores_.
Passages in bold were indicated by =equal signs=.
Small caps were replaced with ALL CAPS.
The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up
paragraphs and so that they are next to the text they illustrate. Thus
the page number of the illustration might not match the page number in
the List of Illustrations, and the order of illustrations may not be the
same in the List of Illustrations and in the book.
Sidenotes in the original have been repositioned between the sections of
the main text, marked as [Sidenote:], and treated as separate sections.
Errors in punctuation and inconsistent hyphenation were not corrected
unless otherwise noted.
On page 10, "though" was replaced with "through".
On page 13, "nd" was replaced with "and".
On page 21, "away" was replaced with "way".
On page 22, a period was removed after "72836".
On page 24, "your" was replaced with "you".
On page 31, a comma was removed after "General Rupertus".