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- catalog abstract ""Desperate for junior officers to meet the demands of its rapid wartime expansion and to replace its mounting casualties in the Pacific, the U.S. Marine Corps convened a special officer candidate school (SOCS) at Camp Lejeune in 1944 to augment the regular officer candidate courses (OCC) at Quantico. The four hundred candidates assigned to this special class had enlisted in the V-12 officers procurement program and were called to active duty from colleges and universities across the country. Destined to fight in some of the bloodiest battles of World War II and to answer the call to arms again in Korea, these SOCS 400 Marines, as they called themselves, served in the Minuteman tradition established at Lexington and Concord nearly two centuries earlier. Their story is told here by James R. Dickenson, a former Marine and reporter for some of the nation's leading news organizations. Focusing on ten men representing all six Marine divisions, he chronicles their experiences through induction, training, and combat to the lives they led after the war."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12296940.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Desperate for junior officers to meet the demands of its rapid wartime expansion and to replace its mounting casualties in the Pacific, the U.S. Marine Corps convened a special officer candidate school (SOCS) at Camp Lejeune in 1944 to augment the regular officer candidate courses (OCC) at Quantico. The four hundred candidates assigned to this special class had enlisted in the V-12 officers procurement program and were called to active duty from colleges and universities across the country. Destined to fight in some of the bloodiest battles of World War II and to answer the call to arms again in Korea, these SOCS 400 Marines, as they called themselves, served in the Minuteman tradition established at Lexington and Concord nearly two centuries earlier.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-225) and index.".
- catalog description "Machine generated contents note: Preface xi --Acknowledgments xv --1 Pearl Harbor 1 -- A Date Which Will Live in Infamy --2 Brass Hats and Gold Bars 17 -- Warriors and Leaders --3 The V-12 Program 24 -- Passage into the Marine Corps --4 Parris Island 45 -- All Hope Abandon, -- Ye Who Enter Here --5 The SOCS 400 57 -- A Lot of You Are Not Coming Back --6 To Westward 72 -- For Duty Beyond the Seas --7 Iwo Jima 94 -- Red Blood and Black Sand --8 Iwo Jima 117 -- Would Any of Us Be Left? --9 Okinawa 131 -- Battle of Attrition --10 The Atom Bomb and the -- Invasion of Japan 162 -- You Second Lieutenants -- Are Expendable --11 Postwar 188 -- When Johnny Comes -- Marching Home Again --Epilogue 205 -- Fifty Years Later.".
- catalog description "Their story is told here by James R. Dickenson, a former Marine and reporter for some of the nation's leading news organizations. Focusing on ten men representing all six Marine divisions, he chronicles their experiences through induction, training, and combat to the lives they led after the war."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 232 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "We few.".
- catalog identifier "1557501688 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "We few.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press,".
- catalog relation "We few.".
- catalog spatial "Japan Okinawa Island.".
- catalog subject "940.54/1273/0922 21".
- catalog subject "D767.99.I9 D53 2001".
- catalog subject "Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945.".
- catalog subject "United States. Marine Corps Officers Biography.".
- catalog subject "United States. Marine Corps. Special Officers Candidate School Biography.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Japan Okinawa Island.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Machine generated contents note: Preface xi --Acknowledgments xv --1 Pearl Harbor 1 -- A Date Which Will Live in Infamy --2 Brass Hats and Gold Bars 17 -- Warriors and Leaders --3 The V-12 Program 24 -- Passage into the Marine Corps --4 Parris Island 45 -- All Hope Abandon, -- Ye Who Enter Here --5 The SOCS 400 57 -- A Lot of You Are Not Coming Back --6 To Westward 72 -- For Duty Beyond the Seas --7 Iwo Jima 94 -- Red Blood and Black Sand --8 Iwo Jima 117 -- Would Any of Us Be Left? --9 Okinawa 131 -- Battle of Attrition --10 The Atom Bomb and the -- Invasion of Japan 162 -- You Second Lieutenants -- Are Expendable --11 Postwar 188 -- When Johnny Comes -- Marching Home Again --Epilogue 205 -- Fifty Years Later.".
- catalog title "We few : the Marine Corps 400 in the war against Japan / James R. Dickenson.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".