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Marines Deserve Better Treatment From War Department
Sage gray area column laments war department plans to diminish the marine corps. Writer praises Marines courage and sacrifice in World War II. Urges officials to honor rather than trivialize Marine service, imagining monuments and wartime sites as a rebuke to proposed reductions.
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Vandegrift
War Department
Marine Corps
Army
Grand Canyon
Niagara Falls
United States
Japan
Germany
United States Marine Corps
Leathernecks
Marines. That Builds Morale, Gen. Vandegrift
USO
Bobby Soxers
Montezuma
Tripoli
Guadalcanal
Iwo Jima
Washington
Leland Tworme LO
Angeles