Word: belleau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Virginian, aged 59, he was graduated from Annapolis in 1890. He helped capture Guantanamo Bay in the Spanish War and relieve Peking in the Boxer Uprising. He served as a provincial military governor in the Philippines, won the Congressional Medal of Honor in the seizure of Vera Cruz. Through Belleau Wood he led the Fourth Marine Brigade to Soissons, St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne, then on to the Rhine and Coblentz. After 39 years of almost continuous and always victorious fighting, General Neville, familiarly known as "Whispering Buck," still possesses the most powerful drill-voice in the service...
...June 2, 1918, Belleau Wood was a pernicious fester on the Allied front line. Snugly nestled in every available cranny were deadly German machine gun nests. On that day into Belleau Wood went the U. S. Marines of the 2nd Division Regular Army, with bared bayonets. They yelled in defiance, yelled in death. When, after ten days, the 26th Division relieved them, 4,500 U. S. Marines were killed, gassed or wounded. But there were no more Germans in the Wood. The 26th Division, advancing, bombarded the town of Belleau, demolished the ancient chapel, drove out the Germans...
Last week there were reverberations. Major General James Guthrie Harbord, retired (Radio Corp. of America) as 2nd Division Commander, rumbled judicially: "The placing of a memorial by another division almost at the gateway of Belleau Wood will distort history for posterity." Back came Lieut. Carroll J. Swan, president of the "Yankee Division Club": "It is absurd for the Marines to say we are taking any of the glory from them. . . . We were just as regular as they, and more so. . . . It is rather late in the game now to criticise. . . . They are the greatest bunch of advertisers in the world...
...Paris. Premier Poincare and Marshal ("They shall not pass") Petain received at Verdun. Lunch was served to hundreds in the market square, once razed but now reconstructed. The Douaumont Ossuary, a monument to 400,000 unidentified Frenchmen who fell defending the citadel, was dedicated. St. Mihiel, the Argonne, Belleau Wood drew steady streams of visitors. At least one news correspondent went to the bramble-hidden grave upon which a onetime U. S. President caused to be chiseled: "He has outsoared the shadows of our night?Quentin Roosevelt...
...Belleau...