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Tommy Holcomb's Corps musters close to 40,000, includes a small, well-integrated army (the Fleet Marine Force) equipped with tanks, airplanes, machine guns, artillery. But in Holcomb's day, as in Burrows', the Marines still insist on restoring Politeness...
Today the Corps is girding itself for what may come. It has its eye particularly peeled for the Caribbean. At Guantanamo Bay, 3,600 officers and men of the Fleet Marine Force last week waited and trained...
Fastest conveyances of the 1940 Marines will be six Navy "four-piper" destroyers, refitted to crowd 200 men below decks for a run at 30 knots. This fleet will transport a force closely patterned on the German combat teams-1,000-1,200 men with rapid-fire infantry weapons, artillery, tanks, engineer equipment. If trouble starts in the Caribbean, the Marines hope to get there first with the most firepower, have the situation well in hand...
...many. Large-scale land action was out. So far as naval action went the prospects were brighter. If the British could consolidate themselves on the Greek islands they had a much better chance of staying in the eastern Mediterranean. If they were cagey, they might even draw the Italian Fleet into the long desired open battle. Britain could also afford some air assistance. British planes were said to be taking part in raids on Porto Edda, Tirana and Durazzo in Albania, and last week this British craft-probably carrier-based Blackburns-bombed Naples to give the Italian foot its first...
They variously saw: a French declaration of war on Britain; cession of the French Fleet to Germany; occupation of free France by the Germans; replacement of Petain by such outright pro-Germans as French Fascist Jacques Doriot, Pierre Etienne Flandin (notorious for cabling Hitler congratulations after Munich), Marcel ("Die for Danzig?") Deat, Super-Cop Adrien Marquet; use of French naval bases by the German Fleet; surrender to Germany of the League of Nations mandate over Syria; cession of Alsace-Lorraine, French Morocco, Tunisia, the Riviera; German use of French native troops in Equatorial Africa to take the Sudan from...