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
