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"Major General Merwin H. Silverthorn, Commanding General, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, cuts the first piece of birthday cake at this Staff Non-Commissioned Officers Club." From the Marion Fischer Collection (COLL/858) at the Marine Corps Archives and Special Collections OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH: Date: November 1953 : Source
John A. Lejeune, author of Marine Corps Order 47. Prior to 1921, Marines celebrated the recreation of the Corps on 11 July with little pomp or pageantry. [7] On 21 October 1921, Major Edwin North McClellan, in charge of the Corps's fledgling historical section, sent a memorandum to Commandant John A. Lejeune, suggesting the Marines' original birthday of 10 November be declared a Marine Corps ...
Howard P. Perry, the first black recruit in the U.S. Marine Corps, 1942. In 1776 and 1777, a dozen African American marines served in the American Revolutionary War, but from 1798 to 1942, the Marine Corps followed a racially discriminatory policy of denying African Americans the opportunity to serve. [127]
The crayon-eating Marine is a humorous trope (or meme) associated with the United States Marine Corps, emerging online in the early 2010s. Playing off of a stereotype of Marines as unintelligent, the trope supposes that they frequently eat crayons and drink glue .
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Series Title Director Animator Release Date DVD Release Notes Mickey Mouse: The Barn Dance: Walt Disney: Ub Iwerks: March 14 "Mickey Mouse in Black and White, Volume Two" First Disney short distributed by Columbia Pictures, excluding Plane Crazy.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The number of Americans filing new applications for jobless benefits fell more than expected last week, reversing the prior week's jump and suggesting that a gradual labor ...