Word: peleliu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veteran rifleman in the Marine Corps who saw two years service, two bloody campaigns (Peleliu and Okinawa), and received two wounds (one in each campaign), who will not be 25 years old until next month, and who knows that a lot of my buddies were my age or younger ... I hope you will print this letter so that Hershey's remark may at least be placed in perspective. It was precisely the youngsters who were doing the bloody work-so they only saw two years service (a short time...
...wiry El Pasoan who once went in for portraiture and commercial art, developed his reporter's skill on a rugged assignment. As an artist-correspondent he covered World War II for LIFE, painted the North Atlantic patrol, later moved to the Pacific and landed with the Marines on Peleliu. After the war LIFE commissioned the cattle pictures, last week presented them to the Dallas museum...
Into the Textbooks. Despite their differences, Smith and Rupertus planned the Peleliu invasion (the 1st Division's bloodiest battle of the war). When Rupertus broke his ankle while watching landing practice, some doubt was expressed by topside on his physical ability to command at Peleliu. Smith loyally argued for the superior who had berated him, and Rupertus commanded the operation on crutches...
...After Peleliu, Smith was transferred to the staff of Lieut. General Simon Buckner's Tenth Army at Pearl Harbor, to help plan D-day on Okinawa, a combined Army-Marine operation (1,213 ships, 183,000 men). In July 1945 he was assigned once more to Quantico. Appointed as Quantico commandant in 1946 was General Clifton B. Gates, a regimental commander' on Guadalcanal who is now commandant of the Corps. Gates and Smith sifted out all that had been learned of the art of amphibious warfare and distilled it into a series of textbooks, leaning heavily on Smith...
...General Erskine recently finished his tour as commander of the 1st and went off on a military mission to Indo-China. The present division commander is Major General Oliver Prince Smith, a veteran of New Britain, Peleliu, Okinawa...