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Captain John W. Thomason, Jr, USMC
Blue Ribbon Books, 1926. VG--. Early reprint edition. Spine
faded, corners frayed. Interior clean. Illustrated with drawings made
in the field & frequently while under fire, by the author. 248 pp.
Thomason has long been recognised as the finest artist and one of the
finest fiction writers to come out of the Marine Corps. This was his
first book. He served in WWI with the Marine Brigade, 2nd Division
AEF, as second in command of 49th Co., 1st Battalion, 5th Marines. He
participated in all major engagements of the Brigade and was awarded
the Navy Cross for assaulting a machine-gun nest at Soissons. After
the war he served in Peking, in Latin America, & at Pearl Harbor, to
name a few of his postings, and commanded a detachment of Marines
aboard the USS Rochester. He died in 1944, having achieved the
rank of Colonel and lasting fame as author and artist.
EXCERPT: "Beyond them was the 6th Regiment of Marines, arms
stacked in the fields by the river. Each battalion took the road in
turn, and presently the whole Marine Brigade was swinging down the
Marne in the slanting sunlight. Very solid and businesslike the
brigade was, keen-faced and gaunt and hard from the great fight behind
them, and fit and competent for greater battles yet to come. The
companies were under strength, but they had the quality of veterans.
They had met the Boche and broken him, and they knew they could do it
again. The rumble of the guns was behind them, and the rumor of the
leave area still ran strong enough to maintain a slow volubility among
the squads. They talked and laughed, but they did not sing. Veterans
do not sing a great deal."
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