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Major-General Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940) was a United States Marine Corps officer and writer. During his 34-year military career, he fought in the Philippine–American War , the Boxer Rebellion , the Mexican Revolution , World War I , and the Banana Wars .
Butler died in 1940, and faded from public prominence. But Katz makes the case that the life of Smedley Butler is one that we should remember.
How a star-studded new movie whitewashes American fascism. World War I Marine Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, left, and Robert De Niro as Gil Dillenbeck, a character based on Butler, in “Amsterdam ...
War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps major general and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. [2] [3] Based on his career military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit from warfare.
At the time of his death, Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, also known as “The Fighting Quaker”, was the most decorated Marine in US history; he was the only person to be awarded a Marine Corps Brevet Medal and a Medal of Honor for two separate military actions.
Not the least of these was Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, who in the course of a contentious, adventure-filled 33-year career in the Corps garnered 16 decorations, including two Medals of Honor, while also gaining a well-earned reputation for battling higher authority—often in public.
On July 19, 1932 Marine Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler addressed the Bonus Army in Washington, D.C, and launched into a fiery tirade that remains relevant to military veterans, and Americans at large...
Smedley Darlington Butler was born on 30 July 1881 in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Appointed from that same state in the U.S. Marine Corps as a Second Lieutenant in May 1898, he was...
From 1927-29, he was the commander in charge of the Marine Expeditionary Force in China, where he used his influence to ensure the protection of US interests. Upon his return to America, he was made a major general, the youngest in the Marine Corps. Things weren’t always good for Butler, however.
Smedley Darlington Butler. Second Award: As commanding officer of detachments from the 5th, 13th, 23d Companies and the marine and sailor detachment from the U.S.S. Connecticut, Maj. Butler led the attack on Fort Riviere, Haiti, 17 November 1915.