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WWII Heroism Remembered in ‘Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island’: When Uncommon Valor Was a Common Virtue

Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island

The World War II Battle That Saved Marine Corps Aviation

By John Bruning

Via’ Library

Genre: Narrative Non-Fiction/Military History

Pages: 436 + Epilogue, Final Note, Their Legacy, Appendix, Bibliographic Essay, Notes, and Index

Note: We’re posting this review today because November 10 is a very important day in our household. Dad was a Marine. And November 10 is the Marine Corps Birthday. In honor of The Few. The Proud, we thought we’d look back at a historic battle in a long line of historic USMC battles via this book. From the Halls of Montezuma, to the Shores of Tripoli…

Hi, Dad!

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