Word: belleau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same red blood that coursed the veins of the men who beat the flower of the German Army at Belleau Wood, St. Mihiel and the Argonne, and broke the Hindenburg Line, flows swiftly, too, through the veins of the heroes of the glorious victories of the Coral Sea and Midway...
Back in uniform, but a new one, was 47-year-old Playwright Laurence Stallings (What Price Glory?). A Marine Corps captain who lost his leg in Belleau Wood, he was assigned to active duty with the Army Air Forces, promoted to major...
...their President, officially cited Wake's Marines for "devotion to duty and splendid conduct at their battle stations. . . ." And Wake went down in the Corps's history with its other bright stars -the battle of the Bon Homme Richard against the Serapis, Tripoli, Trenton, Chapultepec, Samar, Tientsin, Belleau Wood, Blanc Mont, other bloody fields in every part of the world where Marines have fought and died...
...hour made the meeting dramatic. For the first time since Belleau Wood a U.S. Army was fighting with its back to the wall-in far-off Luzon. Only a little more than a fortnight after the U.S. had gone to war, the democracies were faced with a possible defeat as serious as the fall of France-the loss of the entire Far East if Malaya and the Philippines succumbed. And at this juncture the leaders of the two biggest democracies took a step that filled their nations with satisfaction out of all proportion to its simple practicality and logic...
...with the conviction that a Marine is better than any other fighting man, requires an equally set course. Corps history is part of the training. A young Marine hears it everywhere, in lectures by N. C. O.s and officers. in yarns spun by oldtimers after retreat-yarns of Belleau Wood and the Argonne...