Sentence:  For Marvin Goulding , like Giovanni Martini , the bugler boy who carried Custer 's last message , or Margarito Lopez , the one-man Army on <WSD>Leyte</WSD> , was a Garryowen , through and through . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a battle in World War II; the return of United States troops to the Philippines began with landings on Leyte Island in October 1944; the battle marked first use of kamikaze aircraft by the Japanese