Marine Corps

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/4/2021
  

  Passed Over 3 Times, a Black Marine Colonel Is Being Promoted to General

  The promotion of Col. Anthony Henderson to Brigadier General raises the possibility that he may eventually be become the first Marine who is not a white man to hold a four-star rank. 

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• 9/13/2020
  

  The "Noble Dead": Warren Harding and the Resting Places of the WWI Fallen

  by James D. Robenalt

  Just as Americans visit and revere the graves of those in Arlington and other national cemeteries in the United States, it is important to remember that the nation made a solemn compact with the families of those who were lost in the First World War. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/31/2020
  

  The Few, the Proud, the White: The Marine Corps Balks at Promoting Generals of Color

  The stalled career of a distinguished Black Marine officer raises questions about how completely the Corps has embraced racial integration and equality in its leadership. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  8/19/2020
  

  The Untold Story of the Black Marines Charged With Mutiny at Sea

  In 1973, the House Armed Services Committe, led by a segregationist, believed that "reforms were the problem" in the wake of racial strife, notes Navy historian John Sherwood.

• SOURCE: WaPo
  5-4-13
  

  Gordon D. Gayle, WWII hero and Marine Corps brigadier general, dies at 95

  Gordon D. Gayle, a retired Marine Corps brigadier general who received the Navy Cross after a fierce World War II battle in the Pacific and who later directed an influential study of tactics and battlefield planning, died April 21 at an assisted-living facility in Farnham, Va. He was 95.He had an intracerebral hemorrhage, his son Mike Gayle said.In World War II, “Lucky” Gayle served in the 1st Marine Division. He took part in all the division’s campaigns from the struggle for Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in 1942-43, an epic chapter in Marine history, to the bloody capture of Peleliu in the Palau Islands in 1944....