"You shitheads are here to learn to fight!"
"Vandegrift, I have some very disconcerting news"
"I'm beginning to doubt whether there's a Jap on the whole damned island"
"May I retake Tulagi too?"
"The bastards are in the trees!"
"Was this going to be the real test?"
"F
k Babe Ruth!"
"Crying, praying, and cursing all at the same time"
"Goddamn, they got me in the eyes!"
"We aren't going to let those people lay up there all day"
Epilogue
Appendix A. Officers, 1st Marine Regiment, Combat Group B (Reinforced), Tenaru River Subsector
Appendix B. Officers, 1st Marine Regiment, Combat Group B (Reinforced), South Subsector
Appendix C. US Marine casualties, Battle of the Tenaru, August 21, 1942
Appendix D. Officers and staff, First Echelon, Ichiki Detachment.