John C. Chapin (1920–2008)
Autor(a) de Breaching the Marianas: The Battle for Saipan
About the Author
Image credit: Captain John C. Chapin [source: Breaching the Marianas: The Battle for Saipan, 1994, page 37]
Obras de John C. Chapin
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Chapin, John Careten
- Data de nascimento
- 1920-10-01
- Data de falecimento
- 2008-08-14
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA
- Locais de residência
- Manchester, Vermont, USA
- Educação
- Yale University
George Washington University - Ocupação
- marine officer
military historian
politician
philatelist - Organizações
- United States Marine Corps
Marine Corps Historical Center
Republican Party
Philatelic Foundation - Pequena biografia
- Captain John C. Chapin earned a bachelor of arts degree with honors in history from Yale University in 1942 and was commissioned later that year. He served as a rifle platoon leader in the 24th Marines, 4th Marine Division, and was wounded in action during assault landings on Roi-Namur and Saipan. Transferred to duty at the Historical Division, Headquarters Marine Corps, he wrote the first official histories of the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions. Moving to Reserve status at the end of World War II, he earned a master's degree in history at George Washington University with a thesis on "The Marine Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1922." Now a captain in retired status, he has been a volunteer at the Marine Corps Historical Center for 12 years. During that time he wrote History of Marine Fighter-Attack (VMFA) Squadron 115. With support from the Historical Center and the Marine Corps Historical Foundation, he then spent some years researching and interviewing for the writing of a new book, Uncommon Men: The Sergeants Major of the Marine Corps, published in 1992 by the White Mane Publishing Company. Subsequently, he wrote four monographs for this series of historical pamphlets, commemorating the campaigns for the Marshalls, Saipan, Bougainville, and Marine Aviation in the Philippines operations.
Source: ...And a Few Marines: Marines in the Liberation of the Philippines, 1997, page 29.
Membros
Resenhas
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 9
- Membros
- 75
- Popularidade
- #235,804
- Avaliação
- 4.7
- Resenhas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 22