Word: usmc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first wave of the 3rd Marine Division (part of the Third Am phibious Corps under Major General Roy Stanley Geiger, USMC) hit the beach between Adelup Point and Asan, north of Orote. Eighteen waves followed them with triphammer precision...
Shore to Shore. From newly secured Saipan the weary survivors of the 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions, under their new corps commander, Major General Harry Schmidt, USMC, effected the first shore-to-shore amphibious movement of the Central Pacific offensive. In landing craft, under an umbrella of shells, they swarmed across two-and-a-half-mile Saipan Channel, quickly established two beachheads on Tinian. The island, less mountainous than Saipan or Guam, has no harbor. Its principal value would be to furnish more airstrips. The one built by the Japs had long been neutralized by artillery firing from Saipan...
According to the best available records, he is the only member of his service ever to brave the hallowed corridors of Beaver Hall. We thought perhaps that the USMC had decided to send a one man gang to Boston to take over NSCS, but such is not the case. Lt. Lenhart was unfortunate enough to choose one of the few branches--aviation supply--of the Marine Corps that works under the Navy supply system, so it was his penalty to undergo the SC course...
When the picture reaches its climactic reels of action and offensive battle, filmed by Marine Sergeant Arthur Steckler, ex-MOT camera trainee, audiences should feel the same brave emotion as Private Charlie Bulis, USMC, crouched for the first time in the bottom of an invasion-barge, whispering to himself, "This...
Producer Louis de Rochemont had the help of the Marine Corps as a whole, and, unexpectedly, of Col. William T. Clement, USMC, veteran of Bataan and a sterling actor. He has the film's most leatherneck and authentic line: "Blow the bastards out of the water! Commence firing...