Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn Selected for Space Training 🚀🛰️🌎
On April 10, 1959, Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr. was named as one of the original seven Project Mercury astronauts selected for space training.

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The President of Marine Corps University, BrigGen Maura M. Hennigan, and Marine Corps History Division Director, Dr. Shawn Callahan, were honored to participate in a ceremony at Georgetown Preparatory School in Bethesda, MD honoring its historic connection with the Marine Corps.

#ChinaMarine
“A group of horse Marines march in review in Peking China. These marines were members of the American Legation Guard.” This photograph is from Peking, China, circa 1936 and preserved in the Paul Sydow Collection (COLL/123).

In honor of
General Alfred M. Gray Jr. (Ret)
29th Commandant of the Marine Corps
22 June 1928 – 20 March 2024

Here is a toast to a “Marine’s Marine” that served his Marines, the United States Marine Corps, and United States throughout his life of service.

#USMCCommandants
From the personal papers of Alexander Vandegrift is a selection of documents related to his promotion to general. March 21, 1945, Congress establishes the grade and rank of general on the active list of the Regular Marine Corps.

This is a 'doctored' map reprint.  The original base map is the CINCPOA (Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Area) map published for use in the invasion in Nov 1944.

“Corporal Edward Burckhard, of Yonkers, New York, sports a kitten that he found at the base of Suribachi Yama on the battlefield at Iwo Jima, when he came ashore with the Fifth Marine Division. This photo is from the Holland M. Smith Collection (COLL2949).

#HappyStPatricksDay #ThisDayInHistory
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To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, we present you all with a photograph of the San Francisco St. Patrick’s Day Parade in 1951. This photograph comes from the William C Joch Jr Collection (COLL/1123).

#collectionhighlight
The informational recruitment film “This Woman’s World” on career opportunities for women in the USMC, 1966. 1stLt Jennifer Lyons details her career trajectory from college graduate to the Marine Corps and the jobs that she and fellow woman marines complete.

#USMCHistory
One of the integral parts of aviation is communication capability. The importance of communication with air-to-ground, air-to air, and ground-to-air is invaluable. The support of avionics maintenance kept aviators in the air and assisted with safe return.
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#nationalpidayπ
Today we celebrate the discovery of the mathematical constant, an irrational number with a decimal with no end and no repeating pattern, named Pi 3.14.
The Marines pictured are participating in a Pie Eating Contest which can also seem irrational and never ending.

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Today’s #collectionhighlight is the Special Orders for Railway Mail Guards 1926 from the Eric H. Borgeson Collection (COLL/3555). Marines helped to protect the U.S. mail during a crime wave in the 1920s.

#OnThisDayInHistory #FromOurCollections
Aerial views of Saipan harbor. Troops and supplies loaded onto USS Bayfield (APA-33). Troops exercise on deck of ship as convoy leaves Saipan for Okinawa for Operation Iceberg. Marines in combat gear load onto LCMs.

#onthisdayinhistory
Thanks Alex!
10 March 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful phone call.

Needless to say. Communication has always been an essential part of life. Especially during wartime.

We honor #WomensHistoryMonth with evidence of the contribution that Women Marines made during WWII. There were many support positions filled with women including gunsmiths and weapons maintenance. Thank you to the Women Marines that served during WWII.
#MarineCorpsHistory

#ThisDayInHistory
This photograph is from March 6th 1967. The photograph is captioned “Tankers Construct Road: A blade wielding tank of the 1st Tank Battalion carves a road for the Leathernecks of the 2d Battalion, 26th marines (2/26) during an operation south of Sa Nang.

#ThisDayInHistory #FromOurCollections
On May 5, 1983, a UH-1N helicopter carrying Colonel James Mead, the commander of the American peace-keeping force in Lebanon, was hit by machine gun fire in Beirut.

We honor #WomensHistoryMonth with evidence of the contribution that Women Marines made during WWII. There were many support positions filled with women including parachute riggers. Thank you to the Women Marines that served during WWII.
#MarineCorpsHistory

#RedCrossMonth
Established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1943. When hostilities began in Europe in 1939, the Red Cross became the chief provider of relief supplies for the civilian victims of conflict distributed by the Geneva-based International Red Cross Committee.