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Marines make first landing on renovated WWII airfield in the Pacific
The KC-130J Super Hercules tanker with 1st Marine Air Wing landed ... Eugene Sledge, who fought in the Battle of Peleliu with the 1st Marine Division and later authored one of the key Marine ...
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1st to fight: Pacific War Marines
On the Pacific island of Guadalcanal in 1942, the famed 1st Marine Division — the oldest, largest and most decorated division of the U.S. Marine Corps — defeated Japanese forces in a turning ...