Word: holcombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio speeches and assorted red fire. Thus the Marine Corps will celebrate its 165th birthday. Since it was founded, the Marine Corps has had only 17 commandants; the head man of the birthday celebration will be William Ward Burrows' 15th successor: crop-headed, broad-chinned Major General Thomas Holcomb, spectacled veteran of more than 40 years' service. Burrows' command was only a few hundred men, armed with muzzle-loading muskets...
...Tommy Holcomb's Corps musters close to 40,000, includes a small, well-integrated army (the Fleet Marine Force) equipped with tanks, airplanes, machine guns, artillery. But in Holcomb's day, as in Burrows', the Marines still insist on restoring Politeness...
...that their crack-shooting riflemen in the tops of the Bon Homme Richard helped John Paul Jones to glory against Britain's Serapis off Scotland's coast in 1779. Today the Marine Corps is the keenest rifle-shooting outfit in the world. On the walls of Tommy Holcomb's office in the sprawling Navy Building on Washington's Constitution Avenue hang the trophies of 15 first places won by Marine Corps teams in 31 National Team Matches. Not far away, under the portraits of his 16 predecessors, hangs a framed copy of the letter written...
Major General Thomas Holcomb, U. S. Marine Corps commandant, issued an order promoting Private James Jolly Plum ("Duffy") Duff, bulldog mascot of the U. S. M. C., to the rank of corporal...
Though the test was to be conducted by the Garand's sponsors, the new Winchester had an advance testimonial from the boss of the Marines. Said General Holcomb last month: "We have seen a demonstration of one of these rifles and it appeared to us to be a complete answer to what we need. It will cost about half the cost of the Garand rifle...