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Under Major General Oliver P. Smith (see below), the ist Marines had been assembled from stations as distant as the Mediterranean and as near as the Pusan front.
Thus Colonel Oliver Prince Smith, commanding the 5th Regiment of the 1st Marine Division, described the dawn of his first battle in World War II. His naval escort consisted of six little PT boats mounting nothing stronger than 20-mm. guns. Smith improvised his own artillery preparation by firing the...
Smith's mother earned a living as a dressmaker and piano teacher and son Oliver helped out with paper routes and later with jobs as gardener, high-school janitor and cement plant worker. After high school, he spent a year in a logging camp, then worked his way through...
Last week Oliver Prince Smith, now a major general commanding the 1st Marine Division, was ashore in Korea with the 23,000 marines who had spearheaded Douglas MacArthur's assault. Up to the time when the first marine set foot ashore, the heaviest responsibility lay on Rear Admiral James...
Wizard with Roses. Like many another top Marine officer, Smith joined the Corps after a civilian education (with military trimmings). Sprig of a family that settled in Virginia in 1740, he was born (1893) in Menard, Texas. His father, a lawer, died when Oliver was six. His mother, a woman...