Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ A Marine Corps of 92,000-up 11,000.
General Thomas ("Tommy") Holcomb (ret.), commandant of the Marine Corps from 1936 through '43 (and first Marine ever to become a full general), resigned at 68, after four years as U.S. Minister to the Union of South Africa.
Under Master Mason Hammond '25, professor of Greek and Latin and of History, the Deacons from a spirited unit, and probably, more than any other group of students, they are proud of their House. Its esprit de corps makes Kirkland much more than just a place to eat, sleep, and...
The Army generals wanted the Defense Secretary to define the role of the Marine Corps, hoped it would be to Army prescription, i.e., virtually to limit the Marines to small-unit Commando work and overseas police duties. If this were done, the Marines would require units of no more than...
Author Sze does a good job of describing the sallies, bickerings and clumsy esprit de corps of her "little rats." Without distorting the naturalness of children's behavior, she leads the reader to envision the camp on the mud flats as a nation struggling to live. And Author Sze...