| Good job, 03! I was hoping you might be reading these.
Here's another Marine Corps history question for you. Let's see if this one isn't too easy for you. I'll make it worth 200 milbucks.
One Marine Corps hero started out WWII with the unlikely job of a bugler. As the Marines call them, a "music". He wanted very much to be a machinegunner but the Corps was short on buglers so a bugler he stayed despite heroic actions on Guadalcanal, and Saipan manning a machinegun. Finally the Corps relented and he was made a sergeant in charge of a machinegun squad in time for Iwo Jima. His men under fire from Japanese gun emplacements, "Fighting Field Music" as he was called by then charged the Japanese with just a .45 and some grenades. He went back to his lines time and time again for more grenades until the gun emplacements fell silent. As he was making his way back to his lines a Japanese grenade took his life and made his Medal of Honor posthumous. Many years later a famous ship would be named in his honor. For the 200 milbucks name the Marine and the ship.
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"Do not forget your dogs of war, your big guns, which are the most-to-be respected arguments of the rights of kings."
- Frederick the Great, King of Prussia  |