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Unit History

Kilo Company counts among its Marines Eugene B. Sledge, a 60mm mortarman whose buddies called him "Sledgehammer." He landed on Peleliu on 15 September 1944, fought 82 days on Okinawa in 1945, and later wrote the memoir With the Old Breed.

Activated: 1 June 1917.

Key battles: Belleau Wood (World War I); the Pusan Perimeter, Inchon, Seoul and the Chosin Reservoir (Korea); Operation Swift (Vietnam, 1967).

Name: The Marine Corps' official history of the Chosin Reservoir campaign calls the battalion "Darkhorse."

Honors: 13 Presidential Unit Citations. Sgt Lawrence Peters and Navy chaplain Lt Vincent Capodanno were killed in action during Operation Swift on 4 September 1967, and both received the Medal of Honor.

Sources: USMC History Division, Lineage and Honors of 3d Battalion, 5th Marines; 1st Marine Division, official 3/5 page; Congressional Medal of Honor Society; E. B. Sledge, "Peleliu 1944: Why Did We Go There?" Proceedings (U.S. Naval Institute, September 1994); Encyclopedia of Alabama, "Eugene B. Sledge".