/PLUME IV NUMBER 34 24 August 1959
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PRESIDENT SELECTS NEW MARINE CORPS COMMANDANT
WASHINGTON (AFPS) President Eisenhcur has selected Major General David M. Shoup,
a Medal of Honor winner, to be the 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps.
The 55-year-old general, a Marine since 1926, will become a four-star general
and succeed Gen. Randolph McC. Pate, whose second tv/o-year term expires Dec. 31,
1959.
Currently commanding general of the
Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Perris Is
land, S.C.,Gon. Shoup won the nation’s
Ihighest military award for his actions
^on Betio Island in the WWII campaign
for Tarawa,
As commanding officer of the 2nd
Regiment, 2nd Karine Division, the
general, then a colonel, was credited
as being largely responsible for the
success of the campaign through his
’’brilliant leadership, daring tactics,
and selfless devotion to duty.”
i Although suffering from a painful
leg wound and exposed to enemy fire,
he rallied his troops and led them
'across reefs in a charge on the heavily
fortified island. Cnee ashore, he as
sumed command of all troops and, work
ing without rest for two days,conduct
ed successful attacks against the
fortified enemy positions.
A 1926.graduate of De Pauw University,
Greencastle, Ind., Gen. Shcup started his
military career as a second lieutenant in
the Army Infantry Reserve and later that
year transferred to the 'ferine Corps as a
2nd Lt.,
SCHOOL OPENS FOR
SUB MEN
PEARL H/'HBCR (AFPS)-A Navy school to
teach submariners the details of highly
technical nuclear submarines is new in
operation here. *
Named the n3chccl-cf-the-Boat,n -the
neiv school is designed to teach submarin
ers about the equipment and systems of
modern underseas craft. It was also oper
ated to add to the number of men quali
fied to serve on nuclear or missile launch
ing subs.