My Life As A Jarhead: Usmc 1941 45

Ralph Willis enlisted in the Marines ten ays after Pearl Harbor. There he remained throughout the war. He is a gifted storyteller who brings alive of the fell of the barracks, the “snafus” of the military bureaucracy…teh tedium of months of training…alll with a lighthearted touch…one can almost taste the C rations. The highpoint of the Willis story is the battle of IwoJima. On this eight-square-mile island more than 6,800 marines died and over 17,000 were wounded in one of the fiercest battles in the annals of war. Willis describes his five weeks on this “hell on earth in a matter-of-fact-way…the grim forboding..the fury of hand-to-hand combat, the utter exhaustion-with all modesty unmatched by any description I have ever seen before. William J. Hopwood USNR (Ret) from the Introduction