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Podcast: Walk Among Heroes
Episode: Walk Among Heroes Podcast: Episode 2A - Mac McWilliams (U.S. Marine Corps, 1st Division)
Description: Walk Among Heroes is honored to welcome Mac McWilliams, Veteran of the United States Marine Corps, as our guest for episode two. Mac grew up in West Texas and joined the Marine Corps at age seventeen. Following Marine Corps training, he was assigned to the First Marine Division, joining them in the Pacific following the Guadalcanal Campaign. Mac saw his first combat in New Gloucester and Talasea, as part of ‘Operation Cartwheel,’ codename for the campaigns in Eastern New Guinea and New Britain. Next, Mac fought and was wounded in the Battle of Peleliu, which was the most intense combat h...