Blowing Up

Marine, Pearl Harbor

By the month of August in 1941, Lt. Puller took charge of the Marine battalion in North Carolina. He was going to be able to walk the walk this time around as Japan dropped a bomb in Pearl Harbor forcing America to join World War II. So in September the next year, Puller and his men were sent to the South Pacific island of Guadalcanal. These men would battle Germany, Japan, and Italy for 6 long months and this was only the start…