Word: luckner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took advance elements of the ist to Korea for the first Marine battles there. In World War I, Smith, as a fledgling Marine officer, had been sent to Guam-of all places-where the only German he might have sighted (he did not) would have been Count Luckner, the Kaiser's famed sea raider. Pearl Harbor found Smith in-of all places-Iceland. He missed the 1st Marine Division's epochal blooding on Guadalcanal...
After two months of studying U.S. pedagogy, Count Felix von Luckner, famed German sea raider of World War I, set sail for Germany, where he will help teach democracy to the kinder. The count's parting observation: "You know, I love America...