Scuttlebutt & Small Chow USMC History List*********

On this date, May 23, in the year...

1803: Marines participated in the action between the U.S.
frigate John
Adams and several Tripolitan gunboats off Tripoli.

1837: Colonel Henderson and part of his staff left Florida to
return
to Washington, leaving Lieutenant Colonel Miller as the Senior
Marine
Officer.

1871: Marines from the Asiatic fleet escorted the American
Minister
from Nagasaki, Japan, to Seoul, Korea, to execute a treaty.

1899: The First Battalion of Marines, composed of 15 officers
and 260
enlisted men, commanded by Colonel Percival C. Pope, arrived at
Cavite, Luzon, Philippine Islands, to provide protection for the
naval
base against Filipino insurrectos.

1903: Marines from the US Marietta and the USS Olympia landed at
Puerto Cortez, Honduras, to protect American lives and property
during
a period of civil strife.

1942: The Training Center, Fleet Marine Force, organized at
Marine
Barracks, New River, North Carolina, to include all Fleet Marine
Force
units and replacements except the 1st Marine Division.

1943: On Samoa, the 22nd Marines was detached from the 3rd
Marine
Brigade and moved to Tutuila where it remained as a separate
tactical
unit.

1944: On Bougainville, Navy and Marine Corps TBFs mined the
Buin-Kahili waters.

1947: In China, U.S. Marines evacuated a party, including 66
Americans, from Peitaiho Beach, who had fled Chinese Communist
troops
who had looted nearby Changli on May 18.

1948: Marine Garrison Forces, Pacific, became an administrative
command directly under the control of Headquarters Marine Corps.

1951: In Korea, the 1st Marine Division counterattacked
northward
toward Yanggu at the east end of Hwachon Reservoir.

1969: The Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Leonard F.
Chapman,
Jr., announced that Sergeant Major Joseph W. Dailey would
replace
retiring Sergeant Major Herbert J. Sweet as the next Sergeant
Major of
the Marine Corps.
Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Lewis and Major Charles L.
Phillips
claimed the aircraft distance record in an OV-10A (Bronco). The
two
Marine pilots flew non-stop from Stephensville, Newfoundland to
Mildenhall A.F.B., England in 11 hours and 49 minutes and
covered a
distance of 2,522 miles. The Bronco, which was being used by
Marines
in Vietnam, was a twin-engine, turbo-prop, visual reconnaissance
plane.



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trying to find marines in korea 52/53 w/1st mar div 3rd bat item co i believe that was my outfit fought on dagmar, op2,boulder city. appreciate your efforts

charlie dis hon nov 53