CONTENTS

Prologue: January 1944

One: Unknown Hero

Two: Unknown Island

Three: Paradise Lost

Four: Restless Spirit

Five: Render Up the Bodies

Six: First Landing

Seven: Disillusionment and Doubt

Eight: Rough and Ready

Nine: Digging Deeper

Ten: Proud to Claim the Title

Eleven: Bitter Pills

Twelve: Bone Show

Thirteen: Inferno

Fourteen: Kaleidoscope

Fifteen: Requiem

Sixteen: Seventy Years and Counting

Seventeen: Left Behind

Eighteen: Striking Gold

Nineteen: Ripples

Twenty: Tender Hands

Twenty-One: Conspicuous Gallantry

Twenty-Two: To Home Soil Waiting

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Works Consulted

Endnotes

Index