An interview with Tony DeVito / Tony DeVito ; Mark R. DePue, interviewer. 2007.

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.

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United States. Marine Corps. Division, 3rd. Regiment, 9th.

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Smith, Holland M. (Holland McTyeire), 1882-1967

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Smith graduated from Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University) in 1901. He entered the U.S. Marine Corps in c. 1905, served in the Philippines, Haiti, France during World War I, and the Pacific Theater in World War II. He is sometimes called "the father of modern U.S. amphibious warfare." Smith earned various service medals including the Distinguished Service Cross, the Purple Heart, and the Croix de Guerre. He retired from the service in 1946. From the description of Pap...

Naval Hospital, Bethesda

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United States. Marine Corps

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The U.S. Marine Corps was established on November 10, 1775. From the description of Papers, 1933-1945. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 754107146 The history of the Marine Corps Navajo Code Talkers dates from 1942-1945. In 1942, a white man by the name of Phillip Johnston, who had lived on a Navajo reservation for many years of his life, conceived an idea that he thought might help the war. He believed that the Navajo language, a verbal, rarely-written language, coul...

Erskine, Graves Blanchard, 1897-1973

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Marine Corps officer. From the description of Reminiscences of Graves Blanchard Erskine : oral history, 1970. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122376655 Graves B. Erskine (1897-1973) was an administrator at the Retraining and Reemployment Administration from 1945 to 1947. From 1953 to 1961 Erskine was the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense. From the description of Erskine, Graves B. (Graves Blanchard), 1897-1973 (U.S. National...

Great Lakes Naval Hospital (Great Lakes, Ill.)

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DePue, Mark R.

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Devito, Tony

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Born on Jan. 17, 1926 on the near south side of Chicago, and subsequently grew up there. He was a first generation American, as both parents emigrated from Italy. He was drafted into the U.S. Marines on June 13, 1944, went through basic training in San Diego, and was shipped to the Pacific and participated in the battle of Iwo Jima with the 9th Regiment of the 3rd Marine Division. He was shot in the left arm on March 17th during the clean-up stage of the battle, was sent to Guam for his initial ...