A Lone Marine's Last Stand

During the Battle of Tulagi on the Solomon Islands in August 1942, PFC Edward H. Ahrens of the U.S. Marines singlehandedly faced a group of Japanese soldiers in close combat. The next morning, they found him mortally wounded, surrounded by 13 dead enemies, and credited him with at least three confirmed kills. Before dying, he told his commander, "The bastards tried to come over me last night; I guess they didn't know I was a Marine."

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