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		<title>Landings on Peleliu, 15 September 1944</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Operation Stalemate II—the landing of the 1st Marine Division on Peleliu—began on 15 September 1944. Aircraft of Task Group 38.4 and four escort carriers of Carrier Unit One, Rear Admiral William D. Sample commanding, supported the Marines with bombing and strafing runs. The Japanese had prepared the main line of resistance inland from the beaches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Navy/Marine Corps Team Sails for Iceland, 22 June 1941</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By late spring 1941, with the war in Europe a year and a half old, Britain’s back was against the wall and Prime Minister Winston Churchill asked President Franklin D. Roosevelt to send American troops to Iceland to replace the British Garrison there. Roosevelt agreed, and on 5 June directed the Chief of Naval Operations, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Bullet Proof Gas Tank</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 05:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Marine Corps History Division&#8230; A debate persists as to what constituted the first hostile action for U.S. naval aviation (the earliest distinctions between Navy and Marine aviation were marginal).  Some argue the scouting flights in the Veracruz action in 1914, in which Navy and Marine pilots participated, was the first occasion when naval [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First USMC Medal of Honor Recipient:  John Freeman Mackie (1835-1910)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 05:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Freeman Mackie was born on 1 October 1835 in New York City. Working there as a silversmith, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on 24 April 1861.  His first assignment was on the USS Savannah as part of the ship’s Marine Detachment. On 1 March 1862, Mackie was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remember Wake Island</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[69 years ago today, the gallant defenders of Wake Island surrendered to a numerically superior Japanese force. ]]></description>
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		<title>Happy 235th Birthday to the U.S. Marine Corps!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>USN and USMC in Bolshevik Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 05:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bolshevik seizure of power following the 1917 October Revolution plunged Russia into a protracted and bloody civil war. The Civil War’s destabilizing affects led to an international intervention. Among this international group were Great Britain, France, Japan, China, and the United States. Between 1918 and 1920, the allied powers deployed military expeditions to major [...]]]></description>
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