A Fight to the Finish
By Lieutenant Colonel Merrill L. Bartlett, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired)
While Army and Marine leaders took petty swipes at each other, Leathernecks and Doughboys fought—and died—side by side in the final days of World War I.
With a propitious sense of timing and a skillful demonstration of political legerdemain, Major General Commandant of the Marine Corps George Barnett insinuated a regiment of Leathernecks into the initial force of Doughboys sailing for France when America entered World War I in 1917. Even as Army General John J. Pershing, commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), was cabling in vain that "no more Marines be sent to France," another regiment and a machine-gun battalion had arrived.
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Lieutenant Colonel Bartlett is a frequent contributor to Naval Institute publications. He is coauthor with Jack Sweetman of the new edition of the upcoming Naval Institute Press book, Leathernecks: An Illustrated History of the U.S. Marine Corps.
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