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When the Marine Corps began recruiting women back in 1943, there was doubt in a great many minds as to just how the ideal young lady leatherneck ought to look and act. But hundreds of officers and men, as well as hundreds of admiring sister marines, gave no more thought to the problem after one look at a tall (5 ft. 10 in.), attractive brunette lady lieutenant named Julia E. Hamblet. "Judy," a Vassar graduate (economics and field hockey) from Winchester, Mass., looked like a girl who was born to pose for a recruiting poster...
Shepherd served around the world, in the leatherneck tradition: in Europe, on battleships with the Pacific Fleet, in Haiti, in China. He served as aide to Major General John Lejeune, the man whom Shepherd has always taken as his model. Already a marked man in the corps, he put in more time than most near official Washington, both as student and teacher in Marine schools. By Dec. 7, 1941 both Shepherd and the Marines were ready...
Marines Pass in Review (Sat. 5 p.m., ABC). Written, acted and produced by Marines and played to a cheering, whistling Leatherneck audience, the first transcribed show leaned heavily on a Camp Pendleton band that was as handy with a love lyric as a marching song. Sandwiched among the musical numbers were several Marine Corps skits, balanced neatly between toughness and sentimentality. Possibly the biggest surprise for Marine veterans was a middle "commercial" selling the hearty, frolicsome outdoor life of boot training...
...never heard of Guadalcanal. Major General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, who had by then taken over the division, had been given almost no time for practice, planning and staging. On Aug. 7, 1942, the marines went ashore on Guadal, without meeting resistance. The only first-day casualty was a leatherneck who cut himself trying to open a coconut...
...honor of the one hundred seventy second birthday of the United States Marine Corps, the University Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps unit will see a movie of one of the leatherneck battles during the last...