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When the Korean War broke out in 1950, the Marine Corps was ordered to deploy an air-ground brigade in less than ten days, even though no such brigade existed at the time. Assembled from the woefully understrength 1st Marine Division and 1st Marine Air Wing units, the Brigade shipped out only six days after activation, sailed directly to Korea, was in combat within ninety-six hours of landing and, despite these enormous handicaps and numerically superior enemy forces, won every one of its engage

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Author

Thomas X. Hammes

Publisher

Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780700618927

Category

history

Subjects

History, Strategy, United States

Updated

2026-03-25