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Article: The Gentle Warrior: General Oliver Prince Smith, USMC

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La Bree, Clifton. The Gentle Warrior: General Oliver Prince Smith, USMC. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press, 2001. 268pp. $32

Oliver Prince Smith was not present at Belleau Wood or Chateau Thierry. Neither did he chase Sandino in Nicaragua. He never served in Shanghai with the 4th Marines. He missed the fighting on Guadalcanal and Tarawa-early 1941 saw him with the 1st Marine Brigade in Iceland, returning to the United States in May 1942 for an eighteen-month stint in the newly formed headquarters Division of Plans and Policies. Consequently, Smith's first taste of combat did not come until early 1944-fully twentyseven years after commissioning-at New Britain, where he served initially as ...

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