With the Marine Corps celebrating its 250th birthday Nov. 10 and Veterans Day on Nov. 11, we look at the birth of the corps. Continental Marines land at New Providence during the Battle of Nassau. US ...
Lt. Colonel W.W. Stickney, the commanding officer, cuts a Thanksgiving cake with a Japanese officer's sword at Guadalcanal, as hungry Leathernecks look on. (Wikimedia Commons) Every Nov. 10, Marines ...