[Reading] ➿ Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific Author RV Burgin – Crime-books.co A remarkable eyewitness account of the most brutal combat of the Pacific War from Peleliu to Okinawa this is the true story of RV Burgin the real life World War II Marine Corps hero featured inHBOs ThA remarkable eyewitness account of the most brutal combat of the Pacific War from Peleliu to Okinawa this is the true story of RV Burgin the real life World War II Marine Corps hero featured inHBOs The Pacific Read his story and marvel at the manand those like himTom Hanks When a young Texan named RV Burgin joined the Marines 1942 he never imagined what was waiting for him a world away in the Pacific There amid steamy jungles he encountered a ferocious and desperate e.

Nemy in the Japanese engaging them in some of the most grueling and deadly fights of the war In this remarkable memoir Burgin reveals his life as a special breed of Marine Schooled by veterans who had endured the cauldron of Guadalcanal Burgins company soon confronted snipers repulsed jungle ambushes encountered abandoned corpses of hara kiri victims and warded off howling banzai attacks as they island hopped from one bloody battle to the next In his two years at war.