A REVIEW OF 1ST BATTALION 1ST MARINES UNIT LOGO

“We received in a couple of hundred yards in within the Beach front after which you can the Japanese opened hearth on us,” explained Al "Duke" Dellaera, an eighteen-yr-old Marine with 1st Marine Division at time, recalling an attack while in the early days in the invasion. “We had been ambushed, actually stunned. All I saw was debris falling