Posts Tagged ‘51st Composite Defense Battalion’
You Ain’t Going To Be No Officer
On November 10, 1945, the 170th anniversary of the founding of the United States Marine Corps, a small ceremony took place at Montford Point, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. In what would later be deemed an historic day for the Marine Corps and the United States, Frederick C. Branch, a twenty-three-year-old World War II veteran with…
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