Robert Sherrod

Eddie W. Robinson / Sgt. Dan Levin

Marguerite Higgins

Donald Sanborn / Pvt. Raymond Howell

Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift / Fleet Admiral William Halsey

Elsa Maxwell

Hortense Johnson

Lt. Fiske Hanley / Sgt. Benjamin McKinney

Capt. Edwin Simmons

Narrator

1st Lt. David Hettema / Sgt. William Manchester

Mike Mervosh

Edward R. Murrow

Corp. James R. Garrett / Sgt. John H. Morris

Pvt. George Strang

Eugene B. Sledge

1940s Newscaster

Sgt. Thomas McPhatter

Hanson Baldwin / Sgt. Bill Reed

Sgt. Bill Mauldin

Lt. Colonel Lewis B. 'Chesty' Puller

Ernie Pyle

Corp. Wilfred Hanson / Capt. John C. Chapin

Director

Writer