The US Marines feed thousands of marines into a Japanese meat grinder for no tactical reason before trying to ignore help from the Army to save their pride.

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Sources:

Sledge, Eugene B. (1990). With the Old Breed: At Peleliu And Okinawa

Leckie, Robert, Helmet For My Pillow

Anderson, Charles R. Western Pacific. The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II

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