Word: hollander
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This continuous alert against attacks from other services has been shared by Holland Smith. He is so Marine-minded that he has been known to argue against hidebound Navy thinking with his blonde, six-footer only son John Victor (Annapo lis '34), until recently a destroyer commander in the Mediterranean, now aide to Admiral Leahy...
...tempered Kelly Turner and hot-tempered Holland Smith get along fine -now. Says General Smith: "I like that guy. We fought. We argued like hell. We were nasty to each other. But when we came up from the mat we were friends." Why the Marines? Some theorists claim that marines are good fighters be cause they must always fight, war or peace. More than once Army officers have tried to abolish the Marine Corps -Douglas MacArthur as Chief of Staff had the last notable try. Many a West Pointer will still argue that the picked troops of the Marine Corps...
...made Holland Smith the foot soldiers' counterpart to Richmond Kelly Turner, the Central Pacific's admiral who commands the warships that fire on atolls and the transports that deliver the invading soldiers and marines...
...Holland Smith has a hand in strategic and tactical planning, supervises the final training of the island-invading troops...
...Time for Diplomacy. Perennially truculent, Holland Smith would have been busted out years ago if he had not been the man and the Marine he is. A military liberal at the salt-encrusted age of 61, he never hesitates to admit his own mistakes...