Word: lem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Colonel Frank Schwable, U.S.M.C., arrived in Washington last month, he promptly went around to pay his respects to Marine Commandant Lemuel Shepherd. Schwable never got past the front office; hard-bitten Lem Shepherd angrily refused to see him. Last week the Marine Corps announced that an investigation was under way in the case of Colonel Schwable, Annapolis man, regular marine of 24 years' outstanding service and the highest-ranking American P.W. in Korea to confess to the Communist fantasies of germ warfare...
...society columnist, who reported that "Admiral Carney says he expects to move into the admiral's house on Observatory Hill." Ridgway told the same columnist he intended to take over the Bradley house. Having lost the ball, Radford moved in temporarily with his old friend, Marine Commandant Lem Shepherd, at his comfortable Marine Barracks quarters...
Marine Commandant "Lem" Shepherd . . . (CPL.) V. H. CARPENTER (Prc.) W. F.TRASK...
Marine Milestone. As the son of a prosperous physician in Norfolk, Va., Shepherd had few boyhood dreams of the military life. The family maintained a stable and so did many of their friends, who had farms in fashionably horsy Fauquier County. Lem just rode-and rode. He was sent to Virginia Military Institute because 1) he did not seem to have an aptitude for law (in which case he would automatically have been sent to the University of Virginia) and 2) V.M.I., in his family's eyes, was much better than West Point. Young Lem was a reluctant student...
...first disorganized days of the Korean war, the Marines were ready again, and it was Lem Shepherd who bore the brunt of getting them into the hard-pressed Pusan perimeter. The decision to take Inchon from the sea was General Douglas MacArthur's; the men who did the detailed planning were a little group of Marine officers, and the first troops ashore were from the First Marine Division, with Lem Shepherd landing in the fifth assault wave. When Chinese hordes threatened to engulf the Marines below the Yalu River, Shepherd flew to the Changjin Reservoir by helicopter...