Word: leathernecked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fish supplies, fresh from the salmon tius of Alaska, have also been cut off by the war, going now to fill the stomachs of soldiers, sailors, and leatherneck marines. With the present war plan instituted by Yale, it is expected that the valuable part played by Elis in the war effort will warrant their being allotted one can of salmon each week...
...report in his notebook, tore it out, sent it along in the patrol boat as his last report. As a Marine of 18 years' service, afloat and ashore, he must have been aware that he was adding another classic to the library of impersonal letters written by leatherneck officers since the first of the Corps sailed with John Paul Jones...
...authorized quota of 193,000, was in no hurry to get them, figured that next March would be time enough to complete its full fighting strength. Reasons for the superior drawing power of the Navy over the Army were better pay, more chance to see the world. A leatherneck recruiting officer put it another way for his outfit. Said he: "It's the . . . old oomph that brings them...
...Japanese, tardily deciding to reopen the wounds to their feelings, asserted next day that the gendarmes had been mauled by the devil dogs-beaten about the hips and legs with rifle butts, struck in the face, so that they were cut inside their mouths. Colonel Peck, a leatherneck in the classic tradition, stood his ground and flatly said...