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Article: Gyrene: The World War II United States Marine

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Jones, Wilbur D., Jr. Gyrene: The World War II United States Marine. Shippensburg, Penna.: White Mane, 1998. 322pp. $29.95

Anyone who expects to lead Marines in combat will find reading Gyrene, despite its faults, a useful exercise. This is a history of the men who enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, how they fought, lived, and survived. It is a family history, without pretense or prudery.

The professional reader will learn nothing here of strategy or tactics but may gain some understanding of the young men who are asked to carry out those abstractions and win the battle on the ground.

The author, Wilbur D. Jones, Jr., is a retired captain in the Naval Reserve who was ...

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