Menard’s Leatherneck General

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  • VICTORY AT HIGH TIDE- Overcoming challenges that numerous military and naval experts declared made the landing at Incheon “impossible,” the Navy-Marine Team executed a “flawless” amphibious assault. U.S. Marine Corps official photos, public domain.
    VICTORY AT HIGH TIDE- Overcoming challenges that numerous military and naval experts declared made the landing at Incheon “impossible,” the Navy-Marine Team executed a “flawless” amphibious assault. U.S. Marine Corps official photos, public domain.
    It must have caused quite a stir in town in 1950 when the September 25th edition of Time magazine came out with the picture of a son of Menard on the front cover. But there he was, Major General Oliver Prince Smith, United States Marine Corps, the Commanding General of the storied 1st Marine Division, born in Menardville in 1893. Before the internet, print media was where people went ...

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