With the Old Mares

by emotlinbsu

Rating: mature
Tags: Dark, Alternate Universe
Length: 225

A memoir of the times at Peleliu and Okinawa.

Private Fluttershy of the First Mareines Division is one of the mortar mares of her company. She recalls the dark realities of the Pacific War on the islands of Peleliu and Okinawa.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2014-12-04 02:14:57 UTC

Prelude

My name is Fluttershy, I come from Ponyville, Equestria. I enlisted into the Mareines in December of 1942, when shortly after, I was shipped out to training at Camp Elliott. There I was designated to be an infantry mare to the First Mareine Division, or the heroes of Guadalcanal. I was given the choice to chose which weapon I could use, as the mares there thought a pony would be more effective with a weapon they wanted, rather than assigned. I was given the choice of 60mm mortars, machine gunners, 37mm AT gun, or the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR). I went into the 60mm mortars, like my friend Daisy, who served on Guadalcanal and Cape Gloucester. On February 28th, 1944, I was sent in as part of the 46th Replacement Battalion and sent to the island of Pavuvu, where I was assigned into the 3rd Battalion, 5th Mareine Regiment, King Company (K). From there, I went to the island of Peleliu in 1944 and to Okinawa in 1945. These are my memoirs of my times with some of the bravest ponies I have ever met with in my life. I've made countless friends, and yet lost countless others. This isn't meant to glorify war, this is a story about the Mareines who fought on these small islands, and those who lost their lives...