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Saturday, November 10, 2012

Happy Birthday Marines

This Day in History: November 10, 1775

World's Greatest Warriors
 Happy 237th Birthday!
BIRTH OF THE UNITED STATES MARINES: 
The legacy of the United States Marine Corps was born on November 10, 1775, when Congrerss commissioned Robert Mullan, the proprietor of Tun Tavern, located on Philadelphia's historic waterfront to raise the first two battalions of Marines, under the leadership of Samuel Nicholas, the first appointed Commandant of the Continental Marings. The U.S. Marines have been the first branch of the armed forces to serve in every war since that day, and have mounted over 300 assaults on foreign shores, from the artic to the tropics.

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 Remembering WWII...
Some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the War in the Pacific
 Iwo Jima WWII
Iwo Jima was the only battle by the U.S. Marine Corps
in which the overall American casualties (killed and wounded)
exceeded those of the Japanese, although Japanese combat
deaths were thrice those of the Americans,
(en.wikipedia.org)

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  1. Sandra NachlingerNovember 10, 2012 at 11:34 AM

    Thank you for this interesting and timely post about the U.S. Marines. Semper Fi!

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