Firsthand Accounts

Title	Author	Edition	Summary
10 Days on Iwo Jima	Capt F. A. Stott, USMC	Leatherneck February 2015	A firsthand account, written within weeks of Capt Stott’s landing on Iwo Jima’s black-sand beaches.
30 Days on the Line	MSgt Clayton Barrow, Jr., USMC (Ret)	Leatherneck June 2019	There were just 42 men in Company G’s line that night when Japanese tanks emerged from their nest.
The Battle of the Emerald Wadi	Maj Clinton A. Culp, USMC (Ret)	Leatherneck March 2015	A firsthand account of 3d Battalion, Sixth Marine Regiment along the Emerald Wadi in Iraq, in October 2005.
Mitch Paige: Forgotten Hero	Tom Bartlett	Leatherneck October 1992	Platoon Sergeant Paige gives a firsthand account of a large-scale Japanese attack on Guadalcanal in October 1942
Remember Pearl Harbor	LtCol W.G. Muller, Jr.	Leatherneck December 1985	An eyewitness account of the Attack on Pearl Harbor written by 2ndLt William G. Muller Jr., aboard the USS Maryland ten days later.
The Advisors	Sgt Ray Wolf, USMC	Leatherneck March 1971	An account detailing the role of the Marine advisors who worked closely with their Vietnamese counterparts.
32 Months a Japanese Prisoner	WO J.B. Shimel	Leatherneck November 2017	A firsthand account of a Marine’s ordeal as a POW during World War II