Dick Camp served as a Marine officer for twenty-six years before retiring in 1988. He was a company commander in Vietnam with the third Marine Division along the DMZ and Khe Sanh. He is the author of more than ten books, including Storming the Point and Marines in Combat.
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One of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history, Operation Stalemate, as Peleliu was called, was overshadowed by the Normandy landings. It was also, in time, judged by most historians to have been unnecessary; though it had been conceived to protect ... SEE MORE