VA -- Quantico -- Natl Museum of the Marine Corps -- Gallery: World War I (1914–1918):
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- Description of Subject Matter: World War I: 1914–1918
America entered World War I in 1917. This was dwarfed in size and horror any previous overseas war fought by the United States. As visitors stroll down a typical American street, they are greeted by a newsboy hawking his papers and extolling the big news: U.S. Marines are now in the fight in a place called Belleau Wood. The gallery immerses the visitor in the French countryside and the Battle of Belleau Wood. Visitors witness battle tactics—including the smell of cordite and the whistle of bullets through the leaves—used by the Marines, move through a stand of trees and into the field of wheat, and find themselves behind an overtaken German machine gunners’ position. Hunkered down in a nearby crater, surrounded by a ghostly woods, correspondent Floyd Gibbons can be found typing his report: “U.S. Marines smash Huns!” Visitors experience the full fury of the Marine Corps. The Battle of Belleau Wood lasted three weeks and, in its first bloody day on 6 June 1918, eclipsed all the casualties sustained by the Marine Corps in its first 143 years. Because of the Marines’ widely publicized achievements in France, the Marine Corps was renowned on both sides of the Atlantic for its determination, courage, and self-sacrifice. This iconic battle’s history is taught to every Marine recruit in the early weeks at boot camp.
The gallery provides additional World War I experiences through the eyes of the Marines who served.
* Model T truck, although askew on the damaged road, brings in supplies and carries out the wounded.
* An 1897 French 75mm field gun sits alone in the decimated forest.
* At an oral history station guarded by an armed Marine who has just donned his gas mask, Marines and corpsmen describe the hell they had just lived through.
* Peering through periscopes to see beyond the trenches while overhead a nimble and very responsive Thomas Morse S-4B aircraft scouts the area.
* A Liberty truck is the logistic vehicle used to get the “beans, bullets, and Band-Aids” to Marines in the field.
* Personal weapons (including John A. Lejeune’s M1911 pistol), uniforms, accruements, and the honors received by some of those who fought on all sides.
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