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Mostly middle-aged men were on hand to savor this Celtic irony. Lieut. General Alexander A. Vandegrift, commandant of U.S. Marines, explained the absentees: there are 550 men "by the name of Reilly alone" in the Marine Corps...
...sons of four other Marine Corps Generals survived the first invasion days in the Marshalls. They were: Lieut. Colonel A. A. Vandegrift Jr., son of the new Marine commandant; Major Richard K. Schmidt, son of Major General Harry Schmidt, commander of the Fourth Marine Division which spearheaded the northern arm of the invasion; Lieut. Joseph C. Fegan Jr., artillery officer and son of Major General Fegan, commanding officer of Camp Joseph H. Pendleton, Oceanside, Calif.; and Lieut. David A. Brewster, infantry, son of Brigadier General David L. S. Brewster, now on Pacific duty...
Malaria and shock from Guadalcanal, where he won Lieut. General A. A. Vandegrift's citation of "an ideal Marine," dictated Lou Diamond's more pedestrian assignment...
General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, hero of Guadalcanal, Medal-of-Honor man and one of the Marines' crack administrators...
Once before-it was about the time he had pinned the third star on his shoulder -he had packed his kit. But the misfortunes of war sent him back to his old job. Last week Lieut. General Alexander Archer Vandegrift of Guadalcanal and Bougainville packed up again. This time he was really on his way. Where that way would take him is still a Marine secret. His successor as commander of the South Pacific's Marines: Major General Roy S. Geiger...