Word: archers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major General Alexander Archer Vandegrift of the Marines last week rendered an accounting of his four months on Guadalcanal. The Army was moving in, and General Vandegrift's report sounded a good deal like a valedictory. Killed: Japs, 6,640; U.S. Marines and soldiers, about 700. Planes shot down: Jap, at least 450; U.S., about 70. (Neither Jap nor U.S. sea losses around Guadalcanal were included in the Vandegrift report...
Died. Lieut. General John Archer Lejeune, 75, ex-Commandant of the Marine Corps (1920-29), commander of the famed Second Division in World War I; in Baltimore. Chunky, lion-headed, seam-faced, Barrel-chested, he joined the Marines in 1890, commanded the Marines in Panama during the 1903 revolution, put down a revolt in Cuba in 1912, led the occupation of Vera Cruz in 1914. He commanded the Second Division (a regular Army brigade and the 4th Brigade of Marines) from late July 1918 to August 1919. Under him the division captured 3,300 prisoners in the St. Mihiel offensive...
...Logistics. The Pacific war is one of logistics, and so Archer Vande-grift's most constant worry has been about supply. At no time has he had quite enough of anything...
...only in the realm of supply, but in its counterpart-interdicting the enemy's lines-the U.S. Navy has not given Archer Vandegrift the support he needs. The Japanese have landed troops on Guadalcanal almost at will; they have shelled the U.S. positions from...
Assistant on His Own. Archer Vandegrift does not fit the picture of a rip-roaring Marine officer. Most of his 33 years of service were spent as a quiet, efficient, unspectacular assistant to other men, an unegoistic alter...