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The Avenger - July 2014, Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum
The Avenger - July 2014, Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum
The Avenger
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A Leatherneck In Congress: Melvin Maas's Fight For A Modern Marine Corps Reserve, Timothy A. Guill
A Leatherneck In Congress: Melvin Maas's Fight For A Modern Marine Corps Reserve, Timothy A. Guill
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Melvin J. Maas was a Marine Corps officer, combat pilot, and member of Congress. Maas’s unique view of American defense in the Interwar Period led him to promote the modernization the Navy and Marine Corps Reserve, which resulted in the formation of a well trained pool of semi-professional personnel prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. This study first examines the evolution of the formation of the reserve system of the American Armed Forces during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in order to understand the state of the Marine Corps Reserve that Maas joined in 1925. …
The Avenger - March 2014, Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum
The Avenger - March 2014, Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum
The Avenger
No abstract provided.