as Robert Sherrod

as Eddie W. Robinson / Sgt. Dan Levin

as Marguerite Higgins

as Donald Sanborn / Pvt. Raymond Howell

as Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift / Fleet Admiral William Halsey

as Elsa Maxwell

as Hortense Johnson

as Lt. Fiske Hanley / Sgt. Benjamin McKinney

as Capt. Edwin Simmons

as Narrator

as 1st Lt. David Hettema / Sgt. William Manchester

as Mike Mervosh

as Edward R. Murrow

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

as Pvt. George Strang

as Eugene B. Sledge

as 1940s Newscaster

as Sgt. Thomas McPhatter

as Hanson Baldwin / Sgt. Bill Reed

as Sgt. Bill Mauldin

as Lt. Colonel Lewis B. 'Chesty' Puller

as Ernie Pyle

as Corp. Wilfred Hanson / Capt. John C. Chapin