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General Thomas Holcomb (August 5, 1879 – May 24, 1965) was a United States Marine Corps officer who served as the seventeenth Commandant of the Marine Corps from 1936 to 1943. He was the first Marine to achieve the rank of general, and was a strong supporter of racial segregation in the Marine Corps.
4 de jul. de 2022 · He says the Commandant of the Marine Corps at the time, Major General Thomas Holcomb, made his feelings clear.
Captain Holcomb served as Inspector of Target Practice in the Marine Corps from October 1914 to August 1917. While serving as such, he was promoted to the rank of major on 29 August 1916.
26 de jun. de 2019 · To the Commandant of the Marine Corps, Major General Thomas Holcomb, the Montford Point Marines were a disgrace. “If it were a question of having a Marine Corps of 5,000 whites or 250,000 Negroes,” he said in 1942, “I would rather the whites.”
25 de may. de 2020 · Major General Thomas Holcomb, commandant of the Marine Corps, called the enlistment of black men “absolutely tragic,” and told the General Board that African Americans had every opportunity ...
In 1936, 57-year-old, four-star general Thomas Holcomb became the Corps’ 17th commandant, beginning his seven-year reign over all things Marine Corps. Like most white officers, Holcomb rigidly insisted that blacks had no place in his Corps as they tried to “break into a club that doesn’t want them.”
Using a combination of private papers, unpublished studies, and OSS records, the author looks through the eyes of the commander of the SCI teams, Frank P. Holcomb, son of wartime Commandant General Thomas Holcomb.
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