Summary Leaving Mac Behind: The Lost Marines of Guadalcanal Part of Footsteps in the Pacific 2 Week Between 1942 and 1944, nearly four hundred Marines virtually vanished in the jungles, seas, and skies of Guadalcanal. They were the victims of enemy ambushes and friendly fire, hard fighting and poor planning, their deaths witnessed by dozens or not at all. They were buried in field graves, in cemeteries as unknowns, or left where they fell. They were classified as "missing," as "not recovered," as "presumed dead." And in the years that followed, their families wondered at their fates and how an administrative decision could close the book on sons, brothers, and husbands without healing the wounds left by their absence. In today's show, Geoffrey Roecker, the creator of the Missing Marines project joins us to talk about his work.

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