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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...
...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...
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...