Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...improving amphibious operations the U.S. could thank the top Pacific admirals: Nimitz, Spruance, Turner and Towers. But it was also deeply in the debt of an explosive, spectacled, mustached major general of the Marine Corps; Holland McTyeire Smith...
...time Japan's swift conquest of the Pacific had ended this unrealistic dream, a new start had been made. In September 1939, the ist Marine Brigade started an amphibious training program. That was the month Marine Commandant Thomas Holcomb sent his assistant, Brigadier General Holland Smith, to take command. Tommy Holcomb had picked the right...
...Listless Lawyer. By 1905 Holland Smith, 23, graduate of Alabama Polytechnic Institute and the University...
...What are the Marines?" asked Holland Smith. He found out, and took the commission...
...Captain Holland Smith set off for France. He spent two years there. He was adjutant of the famed 4th Marine Brigade. Then he was Assistant Operations Officer for the U.S. I Corps, where he served with Army officers as well as Marines. He was at Soissons, Champagne, St. Mihiel...