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General Graves Erskine

Details Of The Artifact

Named to Col. Erskine  and dated 1940 tan tailored 4 pocket service coat 

A Bit Of History About General Earskine

General Graves Erskine commander of the 3d Marine Division joined the fighting on Iwo Jima on the fifth day of the battle.  His Marines immediately began the mission of securing the center sector of the island.  Lieutenant General Tadamishi Kuribayashi, commander of the Japanese ground forces on Iwo Jima, concentrated his energies and his forces in the central and northern sections of the island.  Miles of interlocking caves, concrete blockhouses and pillboxes proved to be some of the most impenetrable defenses encountered by the Marines in the Pacific. 

The 3d Marine Division encountered the most heavily fortified portion of the island in their move to take Airfield No. 2.  As with most of the fighting on Iwo Jima, frontal assault was the method used to gain each inch of ground.  By nightfall on 9 March, the 3d Marine Division reached the island’s northeastern beach, cutting the enemy defenses in two.

Operations entered the final phases 11 March.  Enemy resistance was no longer centralized and individual pockets of resistance were taken one by one.  Finally on 26 March, following a banzai attack against troops and air corps personnel near the beaches, the island was declared secure.  The Battle for Iwo Jima encompassed the largest body of Marines committed in combat to any one operation during World War II. 

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General Harold Campbell

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Tan service coat named to Campbell with orginalribbons

A bit of history about General Campbell

While somewhat uncommon to have a Marine serve in the European Theater of Operations, Col. Harold Campbell was personally selected by Chief of Combined Operations, Lord Mountbatten to serve on his staff. Campbell’s primary responsibility was to advise in matters of air cover for commando operations. He participated in the planning of the Dieppe Operation and served in the E.T.O till April of 1943. For his service in England he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general and was decorated with the Legion of Merit. 

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