THE MARINES
AT PELELIU
MARINES IN
WORLD WAR II
COMMEMORATIVE SERIES
BY BRIGADIER GENERAL
GORDON D. GAYLE
U.S. MARINE CORPS (RET)
[Illustration: =“Down from Bloody Ridge Too Late. He’s Finished--Washed
Up--Gone= _As we passed sick bay, still in the shell hole, it was
crowded with wounded, and somehow hushed in the evening light. I
noticed a tattered Marine standing quietly by a corpsman, staring
stiffly at nothing. His mind had crumbled in battle, his jaw hung, and
his eyes were like two black empty holes in his head._” Caption by the
artist, Tom Lea.]
[Illustration: TABLE OF DISTANCES FROM PELELIU