
Articles about resilient Marines and their experiences behind enemy lines.
Title | Author | Edition | Summary |
Medal of Honor Recipient Colonel Donald G. Cook | Don Price | Leatherneck January 2015 | “Do what is right and just no matter what the personal cost” |
Captured on Corregidor | P.L. Thomspson | Leatherneck May 2017 | On May 6, 1942, American forces of Corregidor, including 4th Marine Regiment surrendered to Japanese forces. |
Courage in Captivity | Maj Allen Bevilacqua, USMC (Ret) | Leatherneck June 2003 | Korean War Prisoners |
I Still Wonder, “Why Me?” | B. Rivers Penn | Leatherneck June 2002 | Korean War POW and Corpsman Billy Penn repeatedly defied death and imprisonment. |
Long Live the Red, White, and Blue! | Col Mary H. Reinwald, USMC (Ret) | Leatherneck August 2019 | Because the Iranian militants couldn’t read Spanish, Sgt James M. Lopez got away with Posting a patriotic slogan on his cell wall. |
Marine Bands | Joseph R. Chenelly | Leatherneck September 2004 | Making Music and Winning Wars |
Accounted For | Sara W. Bock | Leatherneck January 2019 | DPAA strives never to leave a fallen American behind. |
One of 52 | Sara W. Bock | Leatherneck February 2020 | Marine Sgt Rocky Sickmann, held hostage in Iran, recalls 444 days in captivity |
Sergeant Robert Leroy Frey, USMC | Maj Jim Geiser, USMC (Ret) | Leatherneck February 2017 | WWII Wake Island defender and POW survivor |
Survivor | Dick Camp | Leatherneck June 2009 | Corporal Glenn McDole and the Palawan Massacre |
Terry Anderson | CWO-4 Randy Gaddo, USMC (Ret) | Leatherneck November 2013 | Veteran Marine went “boot” to endure seven years as hostage |
The Case of the Peripatetic Chessmen | William Howard Chittenden | Leatherneck July 2013 | William Howard “Chick” Chittenden was a corporal in the Marine Detachment, American Embassy, Peking, at the time of this capture. |
The Secret POW Camera | R.R. Keene | Leatherneck February 2004 | POWs at Fukoka prison camp. |
Two Tours in Hell | Maj Allan C. Bevilacqua, USMC (Ret) | Leatherneck March 2011 | Warrant Officer Felix McCool, captured and imprisoned for a total of almost six years in two wars, refused to yield. |
Until They Are Home | Mary D. Karcher | Leatherneck March 2008 | JPAC Strives to account for missing Americans. |