I had a customer who wrote a book on his Army experiences in the Pacific, and his focus was how the media turned it into a Marine theater, although the Army did the bulk of the fighting.
Many people don’t know that in WWII, the Navy lost more than double the men of the Marine Corps.
WWII wasn’t like the wars since.
Let’s be factual about the Marines’ activities in the fighting in the Pacific in WWII. Those Marines were a very vital part of our winning the war there with their many self sufficient battles. However, I tend to believe the Marines would have it that the many more Army divisions involved were just window dressing as is typical Marine gung-ho stuff. I had an older step brother who was a career Marine going back to the first China-Japan conflicts. When he visited us before WWII he was always spit-and-polish. He did survive WWII. I stand by the sacrifices of all ,the Navy, Marines and Army(including then Air Force) as being of ( The Finest Generation).