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Smith, Holland M

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Smith, Holland M(cTyeire) (1882–1967)

US Marine officer. His ruthless drive and personality earned him the nickname of ‘Howlin' Mad’. During World War II, he led the Fifth Amphibious Corps in the bloody Pacific campaigns of the Gilbert, Marshall, and Mariana Islands. He was given command of the Fleet Marine Force in 1944 and directed the landings on Guam and Iwo Jima in 1945, scene of the most vicious fighting in Marine Corps history.

He was born in Seale, Alabama. He gave up a law career for a Marine commission in 1905, and after serving in the Philippines, Panama, and the Dominican Republic, he saw action in France from 1917 to 1918.



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