First battles, first heroes --
Select personality: Presley Neville O'Bannon --
Men mutinous, boat leaky, native hostile --
This old house o' mine --
Those misleading lyrics --
Marines versus Marines --
Cornerstone for a boot camp --
Select personality: John Philip Sousa --
A shaky start for Marine aviation --
Bridge to four conflicts --
Select personality: Henry Lewis Hulbert --
Opening the door to women --
A truck named "Elizaberth" --
Aviators without airplanes --
One last river crossing --
Select unit histories: First Marine division --
Select personality: Dan Daly --
Aviation record-holder --
Pear Harbor prediction --
Marine corps women in World War II --
Select unit histories: fourth ("China") Marines --
Future bishop battle tested --
Select unit histories: seventh Marines --
A "classic" football game --
Marines out of uniform --
Marines with bodyguards --
Select personality: Victor H. Krulak --
Birthing an "alligator" --
Sculpture for the ages --
Black Marines finally welcome --
"How those Marine girls could dance!" --
Part III: War upon war --
Select unit histories: Medium transport helicopter squadron 161 --
Prelude to Marine landing --
Select personality: Clayton C. Jerome --
Marine "Army" in Vietnam --
Select unit histories: ninth engineers --
Hazardous duty pacifying --
Select personality: Captain Bill Dabney --
POW in blink of an eye --
The "mistake" of Khe Sanh --
Rescue mission aborted --
Part IV: twenty-first-century wars --
Congrats, the war is over --
Select unit histories: "fighting fifth" Marines --
From Marine to warlord --
Not-so-lucky Lima company --
Obituary: Frank E. Petersen Jr. --
Select personality: Lance Corporal Sarah Rudder --
The president tells a story --
Women in combat authorized --
And never to be forgotten --
