Hero of the Pacific_ The Life of Marine Legend John Basilone - James Brady [112]
Battle of the Coral Sea and
Phillips, Nash W.
Pinto, Joe
Pistol Petes
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Plain, Louis C.
Plainfield Courier News
Powell, Bob
Powell, Peggy
Powell, Vicky
Proser, Jim
on Basilone’s Army service
on Basilone’s childhood
on Basilone’s death
on Basilone’s Marine service
on Basilone’s romantic life
on Guadalcanal events
Puller, Lewis B. “Chesty”
Basilone recommended for Medal of Honor by
Guadalcanal events and
Navy Cross awarded to
Quantico, Virginia
Basilone stationed at
Marine Corps History Division
Marine Corps Schools
Raritan, New Jersey
Basilone Day (September 19, 1943)
Basilone Parade
Basilone’s childhood in
Raritan Public Library
Raritan Valley Country Club
St. Ann’s Roman Catholic Church
Raritan, New Jersey area
Raritan’s Hero (Doorly)
on Basilone’s burial
on Basilone’s childhood
on Basilone’s death
on Basilone’s fame
on Basilone’s funeral
on Basilone’s Marine service
Grey, Virginia, interview and
on Guadalcanal events
on Iwo Jima events
on war bond tour
Red Beach 2, Iwo Jima
Red Blood, Black Sand (Tatum)
Reynolds, Quentin
Riggi, Lena (Basilone)
Basilone family and
courtship with Basilone
death of
marriage to Basilone
Rochambeau
Rochester, New York
Rocket, K. E.
Rodgers, Captain
Roener, Max R.
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rosenbloom, “Slapsie Maxie”
Rosenthal, Joe
Rossi, Lorenzo
Runyan, Damon
Rupertus, General
Russell, Gerald F.
Russo, Father Amadeo
at Basilone Day
at Basilone’s burial
memorial mass said by
“Sailor Burt”
Saipan
Sammy (scout)
Samoa
San Diego
Schmidt, Harry
Schoenecker, Jackie
2nd Battalionh Marine Regiment
2nd Battalionh Marine Regiment
author’s service in
at Battle of Guadalcanal
Sena, Augie
Sendai Division (Japan)
7th Marine Regiment
1st Battalion (Basilone’s Guadalcanal unit)
Samoa defended by
2nd Battalion
See also Guadalcanal, Battle of
Sgt. John Basilone Post 280 (American Legion)
Shaw, Henry I., Jr.
Shor, Toots
Sian, Joe
Sims, Amor LeRoy
Slattery, William
Sloan, Alfred P.
Smith, Holland M. “Howlin’ Mad”
Smits (soldier)
Solomon Islands
Somerset County Bar Association
Somerset Messenger-Gazette See also Cutter, Phyllis Basilone
Sorenson (Marine)
Spanish American War
Spielberg, Steven
Star-Ledger
Star of Italy Mutual Aid Society
St. Ann’s Roman Catholic Church
Basilone Day and
memorial mass for Basilone
St. Bernard’s parochial school
St. Mary’s Church
Sullivan, Ed
Sumiyoshi, Tadashi
Tatum, Charles W. “Chuck”
Terminal Island
3rd Marine Division
Thomas, Lowell
Thomason, Clyde
Tillman, Mary
Tillman, Pat
Time
Truk
Tulagi
Turner, Richmond Kelly “Terrible”
U.S. Army
Army Air Corps
Basilone and
Depression-era pay by
at Guadalcanal
U.S. Army Air Corps
U.S. Marine Corps
Army Air Corps-Navy rivalry and
Basilone’s enlistment in
casualty report on Basilone’s death
as “first to fight”
growth of, during World War II
Marine Corps History Division (Quantico)
Marine Corps Schools (Quantico)
training and
women in
See also individual names of battles; individual names of enlisted Marines; individual names of officers
U.S. Navy. See also U.S. Marine Corps
USS Ballard
USS Basilone
USS Hansford
USS Jarvis
USS Republic
Vandegrift, Alexander A.
Basilone’s Australia assignment and
Basilone’s death notification signed by
Basilone’s Navy Cross citation and
Basilone’s reassignment to combat and
Congressional Medal of Honor awarded to
Congressional Medal of Honor awarded to Basilone by
Vandegrift Boulevard, Camp Pendleton
Viracola, Fiddle
Vitelli, Peter
VJ Day
war bond tour
in Albany, New York
“Back the Attack” slogan
Basilone assigned to
Basilone Day
in Jersey City, New Jersey
in Newark, New Jersey
in New Haven, Connecticut
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
in Raritan, New Jersey, area
in Rochester, New York
War Heroes (comic book)
Washington (D.C.) Navy Yard
Watters, Clinton
Way We Were, The
Wayne, John
weapons
Browning .30-caliber M1917A1 machine gun
Garand M1 semiautomatic rifles