Word: vandegrift
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor to Major General Alexander Archer Vandegrift of the Marine Corps, for "outstanding and heroic accomplishment" as commander of the Solomon Islands forces...
After almost five months of continuous action on one of the most perilous beachheads they ever defended, the Marines deserved a rest. Not in recent history had U.S. fighting men seen so much continuous front-line action. Under studious, composed Major General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, they had met 15,000 Japanese and learned by bitter experience how to meet the Japs' strange, unorthodox tactics of the jungle...
Major General Alexander Archer Vandegrift of the Marines last week rendered an accounting of his four months on Guadalcanal. The Army was moving in, and General Vandegrift's report sounded a good deal like a valedictory. Killed: Japs, 6,640; U.S. Marines and soldiers, about 700. Planes shot down: Jap, at least 450; U.S., about 70. (Neither Jap nor U.S. sea losses around Guadalcanal were included in the Vandegrift report...
This did not mean that Vandegrift's men had crippled the Japanese Army or air power. It did mean that U.S. forces had withstood their first big test, even though the Japs had tried desperately to rout them. It did not mean that the Japs would give up without having more tries at the growing U.S. forces on Guadalcanal. Last week they came back with eleven destroyers. Dive-bombers and torpedo planes, aided by U.S. surface vessels, sank one, probably another, and damaged three...
...General Vandegrift has had duties as an assistant because senior officers recognized his well-rounded makeup. His assignments in this respect were such important assignments that a one-sided assistant would not have filled the position...