For poolees and recruits heading to Marine Corps recruit training at Parris Island or San Diego, and anyone curious about the Corps. Covers Marine history, the 11 General Orders, leadership traits and principles, traditions and uniforms, and recruit training basics.
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Marine battles and people from 1941 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, including Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, the Chosin Reservoir, Hue City and Fallujah.
42 total questions
Card #1
Guadalcanal (August 1942)
Card #2
Tarawa (November 1943)
Card #3
Iwo Jima (February 1945)
1. In December 1941, days after Pearl Harbor, a small Marine garrison beat off the first Japanese landing attempt at which island before it fell on 23 December?
2. In September 1944, the 1st Marine Division landed on which coral island in the Palau group, a fight expected to last days that went on for over two months?
3. What did the World War II slogan 'Free a Marine to Fight' ask women to do?
1. The Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, is modelled on Joe ___'s photograph of the flag raising on Iwo Jima.
Hint: An Associated Press photographer
2. Admiral Chester Nimitz said of the Americans on Iwo Jima that 'uncommon valor was a common ___'.
Hint: A word for a good quality of character
3. Guadalcanal's airfield was named for Major Lofton Henderson, a Marine aviator killed at the Battle of ___.
Hint: The June 1942 carrier battle
