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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...
William Alfred Eddy has spent 19 of his 40 years abroad. Born at Saida (Sidon), Syria, he sailed to the U. S. to attend the College of Wooster (Ohio) and Princeton, sailed back to France with the A.E.F. to be wounded at Belleau Wood and receive the Distinguished Service Cross. With a Ph.D. from Princeton he went to Egypt in 1923, headed the English department of the American University at Cairo for five years before he was called to Dartmouth. While at Cairo he introduced basketball to Egyptian youngsters, wrote the first book of basketball rules in Arabic, started...