Posts Tagged ‘corps’
February 23, 1795: Birthday of the Navy Supply Corps (Naval History Blog)
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This article was published in the December 1927 issue of Proceedings magazine as “A New Job for the Supply Corps” by Lieutenant T. E. Hipp, (SC), U.S. Navy.
The Naval aircraft factory at the Navy Yard, Philadelphia, was organized during the stress of the World War when naval officers were not available to recruit the organization and the work of airplane manufacture was a new departure for the Navy. The engineers and executives for the factory were procured almost entirely from civil life and the organization was so drawn as best to handle the factory’s peculiar mission. Naval precedent and ...
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November 10, 1775: The Birth of the Marine Corps (Naval History Blog)
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The following article by Major General John A. Lejeune, United States Marine Corps, was originally published inProceedings magazine in October 1925 .
THE TENTH day of November of this year will mark one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the United States Marine Corps, since on November 10, 1775, the Continental Congress authorized the raising of two battalions of marines for the defense of the colonies which were then to protect their rights, as they saw them, against the aggressions of the mother country.
The men recruited for this force were to be familiar life of the sea, but ...
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First U.S. Marine Corps Band Concert (Naval History Blog)
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The U.S. Marine Corps Band gave its first concert in Washington D.C. on August 21, 1800. The following article, published in the April 1923 issue of Proceedings, gives a brief history of the Marine Corps Band.
HOW THE MARINE BAND STARTED
BY MAJOR EDWIN N. McCLELLAN, U. S. MARINE CORPS MARINE CORPS HISTORIAN
So many and varying accounts have been given of the first organization of the Marine Band of Washington, that it is time that the real, and interesting, true story should be told.
The Marine Band did not just happen into being, nor were its beginnings in ...
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217th Birthday of the Navy Supply Corps (Naval History Blog)
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236th Birthday of the U. S. Marine Corps (Naval History Blog)
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Navy-Marine Corps First Exploring Expedition (Naval History Blog)
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Happy Birthday Navy Nurse Corps! (Naval History Blog)
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Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society: History and Mission (Naval History Blog)
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Happy 235th Birthday to the U.S. Marine Corps! (Naval History Blog)
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