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Died. Lieut. General Henry Louis Larsen, 71. a burly, well-decorated (two Navy Crosses, three Silver Stars), leatherneck who fought in virtually every Marine campaign from Belleau Wood to Guadalcanal, wound up in command of all Marine forces in the Pacific and then retired in 1946 to direct Colorado's civil defense; of a heart attack; in Denver...
...Marines, McKean claims, were a tinhorn elite corps until World War I, when Correspondent Floyd Gibbons immortalized the 4th Marine Brigade in the Battle of Belleau Wood. Actually, Gibbons wrote his flaming story in advance, was wounded by a stray bullet that cost him his left eye, and never saw the battle he described so vividly. Nor did he mention the other 20,000 soldiers of the Army's 2nd Division, who fought just as-bravely as the 8,000 marines in the French forest. There is no question that the marines displayed surpassing gallantry at Belleau Wood...
...First World War. The Great War. We got shipped to Liverpool in 1918, train to Southhampton, boat to Le Havre, and in we went. Not much time to think. I was at the Marne, St. Quentin, Belleau Woods, the Wheatfields...
...Belleau Woods?" He points out at the dump. "Belleau Woods was a little forest about the size of this place. We hacked at each other for three weeks in that little forest. All the trees got shot up and burnt. It looked like a field of burnt telephone poles. About eight thousand Marines got killed...
...sort of Spoon River Anthology of the war. The form was the same, in the sense that each character spoke with his own voice to compose a harsh recitative for a community. But March's community was made up of the doomed dogfaces of Soissons and Belleau Wood, rather than the villagers of Edgar Lee Masters' peaceful U.S. hinterland...