Word: holcombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month, without headlines, General Barrett took over one of the Marines' biggest jobs in the Pacific. Last week he was dead at 58, circumstances unannounced. Said Lieut. General "Tommy" Holcomb, Marine Corps Commandant: ". . . the greatest individual loss the Marine Corps has suffered in my time...
Skipper. Chief of the sea's handy men is a quiet, 56-year-old Marylander, Vice Admiral Russell Randolph Waesche (rhymes with "may she"). He has headed his organization almost seven years, longer than Army's Marshall, Navy's King and the Marines' Holcomb have headed theirs. Jumped from commander to rear admiral over many senior officers, efficient Russell Waesche is the first Coast Guard chief to wear a vice admiral's three stars. From 17,000 men, the Coast Guard since Dec. 7, 1941 has grown to almost...
Most of his other big jobs were as a helping hand. In 1937 he became first secretary, then assistant, to the Major General Commandant of the Marine Corps, Thomas Holcomb. Last spring his friend, Major General Philip H. Torrey, asked for him as assistant division commander of the First Marine Division, then in training at New River...
...White House went Lieut. General Thomas Holcomb, Commandant of the Marine Corps, with a 4-by-6 ft. Japanese flag which once flew over Makin Island. The flag was captured by U.S. Marines in the raid of Aug. 17 (with the President's Son James as second in command...
...standing, the Dormitory team took Lowell's measure with a show of snappy skating and accurate shooting that has featured out-of-house play throughout the current season. Benshimol, leader of the winning drive, pulled the old hat trick and pushed three shots into the Bellboy's net, while Holcomb and Morgan finished the job of subduing the aggresive Lowell squad...