Bowser, Alpha L., 1910-. Oral history interview with General Alpha Lyons Bowser, 1998 March 12.
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Oral history interview with General Alpha Lyons Bowser, 1998 March 12.
Interview with General Alpha Lyons Bowser, a Marine Corps veteran ((3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division), concerning his experiences as an artillery officer in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Education at U. S. Naval Academy, 1928-32; Officers Basic School, Philadelphia Navy Yard, 1932; assignment as a gunnery officer aboard the USS Texas, 1933-34; Army Field Artillery School, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 1935-36; assignment to Marine security detail at Warm Springs, Georgia, for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1937; assignment to USS Nevada, 1937-39; assignment to the 2nd Battalion, 10th Marines at San Diego, 1939-40; assignment to Quantico, Virginia, as an artillery instructor, 1940; assignment to the 2nd Battalion, 12th Marines, 3rd Marine Division as G-3; selection as commander 3rd Battalion, 12th Marines, 1944; Guam Campaign, July, 1944; Iwo Jima landings, February, 1945; training and planning for Operation OLYMPIC; his role in the demobilization of the Marine Corps after World War II; assignment to Quantico as head of Amphibious Warfare School, 1947-49; assignment to Fleet Marine Force, Pacific as naval gunfire instructor, 1949; his role in planning the Inchon landing, 1950, during the Korean War; various government assignments with Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D.C.; retirement as a three-star general, 1967.
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