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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.
News of the plot arose when retired Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler claimed that a group of wealthy businessmen had approached him with a plan to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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.
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.
USS Butler (DD-636, later DMS-29), 1942-1948, and Camp Smedley Butler Marine Corps Base at Okinawa, Japan were named in honor of Major General Butler. This page features all the images we...
general, becoming, at age 48, the youngest major general of the Marine Corps. In 1931 Butler violated diplomatic norms by publicly recounting gossip about Benito Mussolini in which the dictator allegedly struck and killed a child with his speeding automobile in a hit-and-run accident.
Major General Smedley Butler was a decorated war veteran. He is best known for serving in the Carribean and abroad during World War I. Smedley Butler was born in West Chester, PA on July 30, 1881, to Thomas and Maud Butler.
Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, one of the most colorful officers in the long history of the Marine Corps, was one of the two Marines who received two Medals of Honor for separate acts of outstanding heroism.
Smedley D. Butler, impetuous, politically enterprising, a celebrated combat hero, campaigned in American military expeditions from 1898 onward—in Cuba, the Philippines, China, Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti, France, and finally China again in the late 1920s.