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...April afternoon in 1945 when he heard that Roosevelt had died. John Morton Blum, now a historian at Yale, was then 23 and serving in the Pacific as a Navy lieutenant, executive officer of a patrol craft, PC 616. His small ship had just arrived at Tulagi in the Solomon Islands and had routinely asked for news. Thus came the message that Roosevelt was dead...
...greatest living legend; of a lung ailment; in Great Lakes Naval Hospital, ILL. A roaring, weatherbeaten old China hand, he spent his off hours downing beer by the case, persistently refused a commission ("No one can make a gentleman out of me!"), created new legends wherever he served. On Tulagi, in World War II, they told how he smashed 14 Japanese buildings in a row with his 81-mm. mortar, then popped a shell down the chimney of the 15th. Reverent marines vowed that he was really 200 years old and had first enlisted at Tun Tavern, where the Corps...
Jerry Thomas has been in the thick of Marine Corps battles in both wars: Verdun, Belleau Wood, Soissons, Meuse-Argonne; Guadalcanal, Tulagi, Bougainville. A competent desk man as well as a first-class fighter, he was recalled from the Pacific in 1944 to head the Corps' Plans & Policies Division in Washington. Old Leathernecks recall his quizzical understatement during the fight for Guadalcanal : "We want to give them [the Japs] a sense of futility...
...come to Tulagi...
...asked for the Army to come to Tulagi...