HELPING THE OTHERS REALIZE THE ADVANTAGES OF 1ST BN 1ST MAR

“We received in a couple of hundred yards in from your Seashore and then the Japanese opened hearth on us,” explained Al "Duke" Dellaera, an eighteen-year-old Marine with 1st Maritime Division at time, recalling an attack while in the early days with the invasion. “We were being ambushed, actually stunned. All I noticed was debris slipping al