[Autobiography] [19--]
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Totman, Clayton O., 1914-1998.
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Clayton O. Totman was born in Conway, Mass., in 1914, the son of Francis W. and Annie B. Smith Totman. He graduated from the University of Maine in 1935 with a degree in forestry and shortly afterward joined the U.S. Marine Corps. He served in defense of Shanghai during the Sino-Japanese War in 1937, took part in the occupation of Japan, commanded barracks in Alaska, and served in Korea. Later he was appointed special assistant to the Secretary of the Navy. After his retirement in 1959, he owned...
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...
