I chose to be a U.S. Marine
By: George W. Carrington, Col. USMC DPhil Oxon
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9781491831779; 9781491831786; 9781491831762
Subjects: Biography; Officers; Marines; United States. Marine Corps; United States
Description: "George Carrington tales you on a journey- from Sunny Scarsdale, New York; New Zealand; Guadalcanal, Guam, and Iwo Jima; Peking and Tsingtao, China; Seoul and Inchon, Korea; Taipei and Kaohsiung, Taiwan; and Saigon and Danang, Vietnam. Don't forget the Pentagon! He discovers foolishness and stupidity, as well as bravery and heroism. Along the way he runs into President-to-be Jerry Ford, Commandant Gen. Dave Shoup, Gen. Maxwell Taylor, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara; Chiang K'ai-sheck; Lord Louie Mountbatten; and JFK and LBJ" --cover.
Table of contents: title: I chose to be a U.S. Marine; title: How and why I got to China; title: Better to give than to receive; title: The Marines depart Tsingtao; title: Formosa becomes Taiwan; title: Korea - war and then truce; title: I get to Vietnam; title: Some thoughts about military justice; title: Verses, feelings and sentiments of a veteran.