This is the story of that small band of women who wore U.S. Marine uniforms during the Korean War. These women are a lost generation of women Marines who stepped into the breach between two wars and preserved the opportunity to be a Marine for those who were as yet unborn. They were, in fact, a thin green line--and they stood fast, just like Marines are taught to do.
This is the story of that small band of women who wore U.S. Marine uniforms during the Korean War. These women are a lost generation of women Marines who stepped into the breach between two wars and preserved the opportunity to be a Marine for those who were as yet unborn. They were, in fact, a thin green line--and they stood fast, just like Marines are taught to do.
PETER A. SODERBERGH is Professor of Education at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge. He served as a platoon commander in Korea and resigned from the U.S. Marine Corps as a captain in 1958. He has published nine books and numerous articles in a variety of professional journals and magazines. His most recent work is Women Marines: The World War II Era (1992). He is on the Board of Directors of the Marine Corps Historical Center in Washington, D.C.
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Photographs Foreword by Colonel Eleanor M. Wilson Introduction The Girls of Summer Goodbye to All That? The Thin Green Line Storm Over Asia The Way They Were In the Wake of War Of Time and Tides L'Envoi References Index
Photographs Foreword by Colonel Eleanor M. Wilson Introduction The Girls of Summer Goodbye to All That? The Thin Green Line Storm Over Asia The Way They Were In the Wake of War Of Time and Tides L'Envoi References Index
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