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Please-half your post is devoted to Northern Ireland and Iceland and staff duty. Gosh, that's impressive compared to the actual battles fought by the Army in both theaters. How about this-you don't talk about MG Smith and I don't remind you that the sainted Chesty himself had to withdraw from bloody nose ridge on Pelelieu and let an Army unit finish the fight?

but the facts are that the Army fought in both theaters, while the Marines were only in the Pacific.

You going to admit that you're wrong or are you going to remain an obstinate illiterate? Truth is, you know nothing, like many of your Army brethren, of Marine Corps history in the ETO.

How about this-you don't talk about MG Smith and I don't remind you that the sainted Chesty himself had to withdraw from bloody nose ridge on Pelelieu and let an Army unit finish the fight?

Apples and oranges. Comparing Ralph Smith's timidity; issuing contradictory orders, disobeying orders, effectively acting like he had a broomstick stuck in his a$$ with his lethargic pace and unwillingness to aggressively enagage the enemy, all of which necessitated his being relieved for cause on Saipan, with what Puller's regiment; which suffered 56% casualties in carrying out Rupertus's orders to take the Umurbrogol ridges, endured, shows how ignorant you are. By the time the 321st got into the fight it was D+9 and they still needed the 5th and 7th Marines to take that ridge. Unlike Smith, Puller wasn't relieved. His regiment, which was thrown into a meat grinder, was withdrawn, over Rupertus's objections, by Marine Major General Roy Geiger, due to the high number of casualties it had suffered and for all intents and purposes was no longer in existence.