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WWI Marine by Samuel J. Woolf
Marine Corps Art Collection |
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A black & white version of this cartoon first appeared in
The Lafayette Journal, Indiana, 12 June 1918
Courtesy of Erick Eastes
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1st Field Hospital
of the 2nd Division A.E.F.
in Bezu le Guery, near Belleau Wood
Over 6000 American, French and German
soldiers
were treated here from the fighting at Belleau Wood.
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Sixth Machine Gun Battalion
4th Brigade of Marines, 2nd Division A.E.F.
Documents, photographs, biographies, etc.
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Advertisement for the 1926 motion picture
What Price Glory?,
about the U.S. Marines in World War I,
based on the play by Laurence Stallings,
who lost a leg while leading a platoon
in the final charge at Belleau Wood.
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The Bulldog Fountain
at Belleau
Was it here
that the idea of bulldog
as Marine Corps symbol
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Special Belleau Wood Exhibition at the
Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
June ~ September, 2001
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Damage to the Belleau Wood Cemetery
caused by the Windstorm of
20 December 1999
A gallery of photographs
showing the extent of the damage,
courtesy of Gilles Lagin. |
The March to the Rhine
The March of the 2nd Division, A.E.F.,
including the 4th Brigade of Marines,
from the Meuse to Rhine,
17 November to 13 December 1918
A day-by-day account,
supplemented with detailed intelligence reports.
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Capt Charley Dunbeck’s farewell
to the men of the
2nd Battalion, 5th Marines,
on the eve of their demobilization,
with particular attention paid
to the final days of the war
and the crossing of the Meuse
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The USS Henderson
Transport of the U.S. Marines, 1916~1946.
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The Death of an Adventurer,
Kenneth Collings, Marine Flyer
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