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The two service members killed this week in a "vehicle accident" were 22-year-old Lance Cpl. Albert A. Aguilera and 28-year-old Lance Cpl. Marcelino M. Gamino, according to a 1st Marine Division press ...
He joined in 1940, but when the United States entered World War II, Basilone was shipped off to the island of Guadalcanal. A machine gunner with 1st Marine Division, on Oct. 24, 1942, his unit ...
Benjamin Watson, former commanding general for Camp Pendleton’s 1st Marine Division and now commanding general for the Training & Education Command at Quantico. “He fought on Guadalcanal with ...
A Wilmington marine who died after his unit was ambushed at Guadalcanal during World War ... called up as reinforcements for the beleaguered 1st Marine Division. Edwinson’s platoon was ...
Executive produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman – the same team who created the acclaimed 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers – The Pacific turns our attention to the actions of the ...