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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...
While the oldtimers boasted of the accomplishment, and because the Marine Corps had grown to a size never reached before (its top in World War I: 75,000), Tommy Holcomb had become the first Commandant and the first Marine to wear the three stars of a lieutenant general...
...first time. It had all brands of field artillery, its own supply service, all the spare parts. It had put women into uniform and turned them into snappy soldiers, had broken the tradition of 167 years and taken Negro recruits. They had been made good Marines. Methodical, determined Tommy Holcomb had seen to that...