Col Peter Ortiz
A recent issue of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture contains an article by historian and Marine Corps veteran Roger McGrath titled “The Marine Corps’ Answer to…
Wilbur Bestwick: First Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps
The first Marine to be appointed Sergeant Major is Archibald Sommers, who enlisted in the Corps in June of 1799. He was promoted to the…
From Continental to U.S. Marines
On November 10, 1775 the Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, published the following resolution. Resolved, That two Battalions of marines be raised, consisting of one…
Major Samuel Nicholas, USMC
There is an interesting, eclectic website called ThoughtCo., that has various menus of topics like history, philosophy, geography, literature, visual arts and more. For each…
Maui Marines No Ka Oi
By Lisa Potts, CWO5 USMC (Ret.) After forming at New River (Camp Lejeune), North Carolina from October 1942 to February 1943 the Twenty Fourth Marine…
Thoughts on D-Day (6 June 1944)
by LtCol Lynn “Kim” Kimball, USMC (Ret) The Duke of Wellington once famously stated that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields…
Atomic Marines
by LtCol Lynn “Kim” Kimball, USMC (Ret) Operation Crossroads’ atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in July of 1946 erased any lingering doubts that might…
A Brief History Of The Origins Of MCAS New River
MCAS New River traces its origins to the early 1940s when the U.S. military began an unprecedented expansion to meet the rapidly growing threat of the Axis…
Huerth Street
LtCol L. J. Kimball, USMC (Ret) 9 Jan 2022 In August of 1942, the citizens of Onslow County were cheered by the news that the…
The Haitian Hangar: MCAS New River’s Tie To The Banana Wars and One Hundred Years Of Marine Corps History
Although the history of Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River dates to 1941, hangar AS-840, the “King Air Hangar,” so named because the station…
The Dutch Marines and Camp Lejeune
On 10 May 1940, the Nazi blitzkrieg, achieving complete tactical and strategic surprise, thundered through and over the erst-while neutral Low Countries. Unprepared, ill-equipped and…
The Battle Of New River
Onslow County, by November 1862, found herself on the frontiers of the Confederacy with the White Oak River separating the Union Forces operating out of enclaves…
