Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific USS Ward the stars are uppermost

the stars are uppermost

Port Darwin

and stone farmhouses

those who had called Sumay home for generations were permanently displaced to make way for the construction of today's Naval Base Guam

Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific USS Ward the stars are uppermostHelmet for My Pillow (1957) is a classic WWII memoir by Robert Leckie that chronicles his service in the 1st Marine Division in the Pacific Theatre. It provides a gritty, humorous, and deeply personal account of his journey from training to combat in Guadalcanal and Peleliu. The book emphasizes the brutality of war and the resilience of the human spirit. Soft cover. 320 pages.