Famous American Marines
Subtitle: an account of the Corps: the exploits of officers and men on land, by air and sea, from the decks of the Bonhomme Richard to the summit of Mount Suribachi.
By: Illustrated by Albin V. Webber.
Publisher: Page
Published: 1950
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
Subjects: United States. Marine Corps -- Biography.
Notes: "The Marines' hymn; piano arrangement by Luis Guzmán": p. [x]-[xi]
Wendel Cushing Neville and the First World War.--John Archer Lejeune and the Second Division.--Alexander Archer Vandegrift and the Solomons.--Holland McTyeire Smith: Tarawa, Saipan, and Iwo Jima.--Roy Stanley Geiger, a flying Marine.--Bibliography (p. [357]-363)
Table of contents: title: Introduction, including an account of the Marines as a fighting force.; title: Samuel Nicholas and the American Revolution: The beginning of the United States Marine Corps.; title: Daniel Carmick and the war with France.; title: Presley Neville O'Bannon and "The shores of Tripoli."; title: John Marshall Gamble and the War of 1812.; title: Archibald Henderson, the grand old man of the Marine Corps.; title: Archibald H. Gillespie and the conquest of California.; title: Charles G. McCawley and the war with Mexico.; title: Jacob Zeilin and the expedition to Japan.; title: Charles Heywood and the Civil War.; title: Littleton Waller Tazewell Waller and the war with Spain.; title: John Twiggs Myers and the Boxer Rebellion.; title: Joseph Henderson Pendleton and the Dominican Republic.; title: Smedley Darlington Butler, Old Gimlet Eye.