Word: holcombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house alongside the Marine Barracks in southeast Washington, where the Commandants of the Corps have lived since 1805, a new portrait will soon be hung. In keeping with Corps tradition, the picture has already been painted. It now hangs upstairs. It will come downstairs the day Lieut. General Thomas Holcomb, 17th Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, takes his last look around, leaves to make room for a new Marine boss...
Solid, spectacled "Tommy" Holcomb announced briefly this week that he was retiring as head of the Marine Corps, seven years to the day after he took com mand. His successor: 56-year-old Lieut...
Three Stars and History. Tommy Holcomb had made history. Under his command the Corps had grown from 17,000 men (Dec. 1, 1936) to more than...
...outfit had kept its character. Under General Holcomb the expanding Corps remained, as it had always been, an outfit of rifle-addicted soldiers to whom the old-timers managed to give the polish of the professional no matter how fast the recruits came...
...nominate a man who gets a minimum of publicity, yet plays a tremendous role in the carrying on of this global war, Lieut. General Thomas Holcomb, U.S.M.C...