Exhausted 1st  Marines sprawl all over beaches waiting for the landing craft which will take them off the island following four months of fighting the Japanese.Guadalcanal Dec 1942(rudeerude)

Exhausted 1st Marines

3rd Division Marines on Bougainville slog through calf-deep, liquid mud of the Numa-Numa Trail, November 1943. USMC Photo "Deo Vindice" texag57

3rd Marine Division

1st Marines board landing craft for ride out to waiting ships after turning over control of Guadalcanal to Army troops following four months of fighting the Japanese.Dec 1942(rudeerude)