Author: Jo Zurwell

Good morning Leathernecks, and on this the 15th day of December in the history of our beloved Corps: In 1824, Marines serve aboard Navy Lieutenant Thomas Catesby Jones’s small squadron of gunboats, which battle a larger British fleet of small craft and delay the enemy’s advance on New Orleans. In 1899, Major Littleton W. T. Waller’s Third Marine Battalion, with15 officers and 325 enlisted men, lands at Cavite to reinforce […]

Good morning Leathernecks, and on this the 14th day of December in the history of our beloved Corps: In 1843, following a dispute with slave traders, Perry’s Marines burn a town in the Ivory Coast. In 1941 Wake Island defenders were left with one aircraft surviving Japanese attacks. In 1944, MAG-12 attacks enemy airfields on Luzon and Masbate Islands to reduce Japanese aerial opposition to the pending Mindoro landing. In […]

Good morning Leathernecks, and on this the 13th day of December in the history of our beloved Corps: In 1847, a Marine night patrol surprises and defeats a Mexican force at Palos Prietos, outside Mazatlan. In 1918, the Marines occupy their portion of the bridgehead east of the Rhine, near Coblenz, Germany. In 1944, a kamikaze strikes the cruiser Nashville (CL-43) during the movement of Army forces to Mindoro.           […]

Good morning Leathernecks, and on this the 12th day of December in the history of our beloved Corps: In 1846, Lieutenant Jacob Zeilin and Marines and sailors of Stockton’s squadron march to the relief of Kearney. In 1914, the 4th Regiment headquarters and its 2nd Battalion move into a model camp at the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park in San Diego. In 1918, the Marine Corps reaches its highest strength […]

Good morning Leathernecks, and on this the 11th day of December in the history of our beloved Corps: In 1846, Lieutenant Jacob Zeilin and Marines and sailors of Stockton’s squadron march to the relief of Kearney. In 1914, the 4th Regiment headquarters and its 2nd Battalion move into a model camp at the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park in San Diego. In 1918, the Marine Corps reaches its highest strength […]

Good morning Leathernecks, and on this the 10th day of December in the history of our beloved Corps: In 1835, four Marines from the frigate Brandywine go ashore in Peru and proceed to Lima to protect the American Consulate.           The remainder of the Marine detachment would join them on 17 December.           The force would return to its ship on 24 January. In 1941, with no weapon larger than […]