Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shepherd served around the world, in the leatherneck tradition: in Europe, on battleships with the Pacific Fleet, in Haiti, in China. He served as aide to Major General John Lejeune, the man whom Shepherd has always taken as his model. Already a marked man in the corps, he put in more time than most near official Washington, both as student and teacher in Marine schools. By Dec. 7, 1941 both Shepherd and the Marines were ready...
...head of the First Provisional Marine Brigade. In the last months of the war, he fought 82 days across Okinawa with his last and biggest command, the Sixth Marine Division. After the war, Shepherd moved on to China, commanded the Marines at Tsingtao. He was chief of Fleet Marine Forces, Pacific, in the summer of 1950, when the wire came from Washington: the North Koreans had invaded South Korea...
...military punishment of the enemy to the point at which he will consider the war unprofitable to himself, and call it off. The Communists have a way of liquidating militarily unprofitable campaigns. They did it in the Greek civil war when U.S.-Greek pressure (guided by U.S. General Van Fleet) had the Red guerrillas backed into a corner. The Reds called off the Berlin blockade when the U.S. airlift saved Berlin and cost the Communists too much in prestige...
...started, and Maras was able to qualify for a Navy commission. He spent most of his time on the U.S.S Boston, a heavy cruiser, and consequently got very little chance to participate in athletics. The Boston was caught--with the rest of the Third Fleet--in the Great Typhoon...
...through the fateful Sunday morning when the carrier-based Japanese squadrons flew in low over Oahu's mountains. Televiewers are able to watch from enemy planes, as the bombs are released. Then, from harbor vantage points, the film recreates the American feeling of dazed disbelief as the U.S. fleet is crippled...