For Country and Corps

For Country and Corps
Author: Gail B Shisler
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2009-10-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1612511767

Oliver P. Smith fought at Peleliu and Okinawa and then commanded the 1st Marine Division in Korea during the assault at Inchon, the recapture of Seoul, and the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir. Called one of the twentieth century’s great Marine leaders, Smith was known as an outstanding combat commander and a man of great intellect and moral courage. This biography, written by the granddaughter he helped raise, illuminates the general’s remarkable life. It draws on interviews, oral histories and a thorough examination of letters held by the family and not previously available to researchers. Gail Shisler’s investigation of Smith’s relationship with his Army superiors in Korea and with his Marine Corps peers and superiors takes exception to previously published descriptions and adds new insights into the Corps’ postwar battle for survival.

First to Fight

First to Fight
Author: V H Krulak
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 1999-02-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1612511619

In this riveting insider's chronicle, legendary Marine General "Brute" Krulak submits an unprecedented examination of U.S. Marines—their fights on the battlefield and off, their extraordinary esprit de corps. Deftly blending history with autobiography, action with analysis, and separating fact from fable, General Krulak touches the very essence of the Corps: what it means to be a Marine and the reason behind its consistently outstanding performance and reputation. Krulak also addresses the most basic but challenging question of all about the Corps: how does it manage to survive—even to flourish—despite overwhelming political odds and, as the general writes, ""an extraordinary propensity for shooting itself in the foot?"" To answer this question Krulak examines the foundation on which the Corps is built, a system of intense loyalty to God, to country, and to other Marines. He also takes a close look at Marines in war, offering challenging accounts of their experiences in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. In addition, he describes the Corps's relationship to other services, especially during the unification battles following World War II, and offers new insights into the decision-making process in times of crisis. First published in hardcover in 1984, this book has remained popular ever since with Marines of every rank.

The United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps
Author: Michael Green
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 54
Release: 1998
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781560656890

Provides an introduction to the history, function, weaponry, and future of the United States Marine Corps.

To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race

To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race
Author: Brenda L. Moore
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1997-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780814755877

I would have climbed up a mountain to get on the list [to serve overseas]. We were going to do our duty. Despite all the bad things that happened, America was our home. This is where I was born. It was where my mother and father were. There was a feeling of wanting to do your part. --Gladys Carter, member of the 6888th To Serve My Country, to Serve my Race is the story of the historic 6888th, the first United States Women's Army Corps unit composed of African-American women to serve overseas. While African-American men and white women were invited, if belatedly, to serve their country abroad, African-American women were excluded for overseas duty throughout most of WWII. Under political pressure from legislators like Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., the NAACP, the black press, and even President Roosevelt, the U.S. War Department was forced to deploy African-American women to the European theater in 1945. African-American women, having succeeded, through their own activism and political ties, in their quest to shape their own lives, answered the call from all over the country, from every socioeconomic stratum. Stationed in France and England at the end of World War II, the 6888th brought together women like Mary Daniel Williams, a cook in the 6888th who signed up for the Army to escape the slums of Cleveland and to improve her ninth-grade education, and Margaret Barnes Jones, a public relations officer of the 6888th, who grew up in a comfortable household with a politically active mother who encouraged her to challenge the system. Despite the social, political, and economic restrictions imposed upon these African-American women in their own country, they were eager to serve, not only out of patriotism but out of a desire to uplift their race and dispell bigoted preconceptions about their abilities. Elaine Bennett, a First Sergeant in the 6888th, joined because "I wanted to prove to myself and maybe to the world that we would give what we had back to the United States as a confirmation that we were full- fledged citizens." Filled with compelling personal testimony based on extensive interviews, To Serve My Country is the first book to document the lives of these courageous pioneers. It reveals how their Army experience affected them for the rest of their lives and how they, in turn, transformed the U.S. military forever.

Marines

Marines
Author: Chester G. Hearn
Publisher: Zenith Imprint
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2007
Genre:
ISBN: 9781610600248

The Marine Corps Way to Win on Wall Street

The Marine Corps Way to Win on Wall Street
Author: Ken Marlin
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2016-08-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1250066662

A Marine-turned-investment banker applies the Corps' core principles to Wall Street and the world of business.

A Salute to Our Heroes

A Salute to Our Heroes
Author: Brandon W. Barnett
Publisher: Mascot Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781936319008

Chesty, the bulldog mascot of the U.S. Marines, teaches children a few things about the United States Marine Corps.

The Gentle Warrior

The Gentle Warrior
Author: Clifton La Bree
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780873386869

In November 1950, United Nations forces in Korea narrowly escaped being overrun by Chinese Communist forces, due to the military expertise of General Oliver Prince Smith. Using the general's own notes and diaries, this book describes Smith's long and distinguished career, his command in Iceland in 1940, in the Pacific campaigns, and in Korea. The general's wartime dealings witrh military and political leaders is also discussed, paying tribute to a man called the gentle warrior.

Making the Corps

Making the Corps
Author: Thomas E. Ricks
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 342
Release: 1998
Genre:
ISBN: 0684848171

Inside the marine corps and what it takes to become "One of the few, the proud, the Marines."

The U.S. Marine Corps Story

The U.S. Marine Corps Story
Author: J. Robert Moskin
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Total Pages: 886
Release: 1987
Genre: History
ISBN:

Leon Uris said of Moskin's history of the Corps, "It's a hell of a piece of work." Loaded with facts, it is also a book that a Marine can read with pride. This third revised edition includes a newly written chapter on the Gulf War.