His experiences as an artillery officer in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Education at U. S. Naval Academy, 1928-32; Officers Basic School, Philadelphia Navy Yard, 1932; assignment as a gunnery officer aboard the USS Texas, 1933-34; Army Field Artillery School, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 1935-36; assignment to Marine security detail at Warm Springs, Georgia, for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1937; assignment to USS Nevada, 1937-39; assignment to the 2nd Battalion, 10th Marines at San Diego, 1939-40; assignment to Quantico, Virginia, as an artillery instructor, 1940; assignment to the 2nd Battalion, 12th Marines, 3rd Marine Division as G-3; selection as commander 3rd Battalion, 12th Marines, 1944; Guam Campaign, July, 1944; Iwo Jima landings, February, 1945; training and planning for Operation OLYMPIC; his role in the demobilization of the Marine Corps after World War II; assignment to Quantico as head of Amphibious Warfare School, 1947-49; assignment to Fleet Marine Force, Pacific as naval gunfire instructor, 1949; his role in planning the Inchon landing, 1950, during the Korean War; various government assignments with Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D.C.; retirement as a three-star general, 1967.