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From Shanghai to Corregidor - Marines in the Defense of the Philippines (Paperback)
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From Shanghai to Corregidor - Marines in the Defense of the Philippines (Paperback)
Series: Marines in World War II Commemorative
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Loot Price R239
Discovery Miles 2 390
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"The Government of the United States das decided to withdraw the
American Marine detachments now maintained ashore in China, at
Peiping, Tientsin, and Shanghai. It is reported that the withdrawal
will begin shortly." President Franklin D. Roosevelt Press
Conference, 14 November 1941. President Roosevelt's announcement
formally ended almost 15 years of duty by the 4th Marine Regiment
in Shanghai. Clouds of war were quickly closing in on the China
Marines as Japan and the United States edged ever closer to active
hostilities. "One could sense the tenseness in the air," Lieutenant
Colonel Curtis T. Beecher remembered, "There was a general feeling
of uneasiness and uncertainty in the air." In September 1941,
Colonel Samuel L. Howard, USMC, Commanding Officer, 4th Marines,
recommended to Admiral Thomas Hart, USN, Commanderin-Chief, Asiatic
Fleet, that Howard's regiment be evacuated from its longtime duty
station in Shanghai. The regiment comprised two small battalions,
made up of approximately 800 Marines and attached naval personnel,
and was dangerously exposed to Japanese attack should war come.
Hart had anticipated the withdrawal from Shanghai by no longer
replacing individual members of the 4th Marines as they left China.
Instead, he attached all replacements to the 1st Separate Marine
Battalion in the Cavite Navy Yard, Philippine Islands. Hart had no
official authorization for this plan, and later wrote, "If we
couldn't get all the Regiment out of China we could at least stop
sending any more Marines there until somebody bawled us out most
vociferously. They never did." On 10 November 1941, Colonel Howard
received the long-awaited orders to prepare the withdrawal of his
regiment. The author examines the history of the Marine regiment in
the fall of the Philippines.
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