[b]Sergeant Romus Valton "R.V." Burgin[/b] (August 13, 1922 – April 6, 2019) was a [[United States]] [[united_states_marine_corps|Marine]] and American author. As a young man, he served in the Pacific Theater during [[World War II]].

Burgin was the author of the memoir [b]Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific[/b] (with William Marvel). He is portrayed in the HBO miniseries [[The Pacific]] by [[ireland|Irish]] actor "Martin McCann":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_McCann_(actor). Burgin himself appears as an old man with glasses in documentary footage during the miniseries.
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