The Old Breed of Marine: A World War II Diary (review)
2003; Society for Military History; Volume: 67; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/jmh.2003.0233
ISSN1543-7795
Autores Tópico(s)Military History and Strategy
ResumoNot all the Marines who served in the Pacific War were as gallant as machine gunner Manila John Basilone, as colorful as Lou Diamond, or as youthfully innocent as Gene Sledge. The men of the 1st Marine Division during World War II were known as the "Old Breed"; even by their standards, Abe Felber was an old man: he was thirty-five when he landed on Guadalcanal. He grew up in the slums of Manhattan's Lower East Side, the son of Jewish immigrants, and joined the Marine Corps Reserve in May 1931 at age twenty-four. Called to active service at the end of 1940, he left for the Pacific with the 1st Marine Division's artillery regiment, the 11th Marines.
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