9780961758516 - Soochow and the 4th Marines di Evans, William R. (3 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 144 pages, photos, maps, Command List, glossary, index. Very good in soft covers.

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. 4th Edition. clean, tight and unmarked, almost new but not.

paperback. Condizione: Good. 4th printing. Moderate shelf wear, spine is creased and has a slight slant, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. SOOCHOW AND THE 4th MARINES The true story of a small mongrel dog adopted as a mascot by the 4th Marines in Shanghai, China in 1937. Soochow became a legend in his own time riding around Shanghai in rickshaws, eating sirloin steaks and drinking beer with the other Marines in his own tailor made uniforms. When the 4th was ordered to the Philippines just before Pearl Harbor Private 1st Class Soochow was smuggled aboard ship and went with them. When the Marines were charged with the defense of the island fortress of Corregidor Soochow was also there hitting the foxholes with his buddies and alerting them to incoming Japanese aircraft long before the primitive radar picked them up. And when Corregidor fell to the Japanese in May 1942, Soochow was also taken prisoner, and spent almost three years in Japanese prisoner of war camps with his fellow Marines sharing their meager rations because he was not entitled to one of his own. He survived all this, and upon being liberated by the US Army in 1945, was flown, with one of his Marine buddies, to the States where he became the heroic, pampered, ever aloof mascot at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, California, and lived out his days in comfortable, well deserved, military retirement. ".man's Guardian.man's Friend The only creature faithful to the end.".