Evening star. [volume], July 17, 1940, Page B-8, Image 28

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Recruiting of Marines
To Bring Enlisted
Strength to 34,000
New Weapons Added
As Corps Expands to
Two-Ocean-Navy Size
By OLIVER McKEE.
Facing increased responsibilities in
the plans for hemisphere defense,
which will require a two-ocean
Navy, the Marine Corps, in a re
cruiting drive now under way. will
soon attain an enlisted strength of
84.000 men.
This will be almost twice the size
of the corps when the President de
clared a limited emergency last
September, and approximately dou
ble the strength of the entire regu
lar Army just before the outbreak of
the Civil War.
To occupy and hold advanced
fleet bases will be one of the major
war time assignments of the Marine
Corps. Landing operations receive
much stress in the peace time train
ing of the leathernecks. In helping
the Navy meet a sudden totalitarian
thrust against the Western Hemi
sphere, the marines must be pre
pared both to establish advanced
fleet bases and provide a landing
force, under the guns of the Navy,
to dislodge an enemy, if non-Amer
ican forces gain a footing at some
point in the Western Hemisphere.
Under the expansion program now
under way, new infantry and ar
tillery units will be added to the
two brigades of the Fleet Marine
Force at San Diego and Quantico.
Congress recently has authorized
funds for a two-ocean Navy. With
the increase in its personnel .the
Marine Corps will have a well
organized and well-trained force of
from 4.000 to 5,000 men on each
coast, ready for immediate service
with the fleet. Additional personnel
Will be available in the Marine de
tachments maintained on battle
ships and cruisers.
Transport Phase Studied.
Though at home on the water,
the Marines have no ships of their
own. To transport an expeditionary
force of marines to an area in the
Western Hemisphere, outside the
United States, threatened by a for
eign invader, ships would be neces
sary. The problem o fthe procure
ment of transports, in the event of
an emergency, is being studied by
the Navy.
The Marine Corps recently has
organized four defense battalions.
Two of these are stationed at San
Diego, one at Parris Island, S. C.,
and the fourth at Honolulu. Two
more defense battalions will be or
ganized in the near future.
The marines have an aviation
, unit at Quantico and another at
San Diego. There is also a marine
aviation squadron in the Virgin Is
lands, available for Caribbean patrol
duty. At Quantico the marines have
a tank company and one or more
additional tank companies will be
organized later.
The Marine Corps today has a
reserve of about 14,000 men. On
June 30 there were 19 reserve bat
talions widely distributed geo
graphically. Three more reserve
battalions are now being organized.
Other elements in the Marine Be
serve include the fleet reserve and
the volunteer reserve. Approximate
ly 170 reserve and 100 retired officers
are now on active duty with the
Marine Corps.
Equipment Improved.
Though the equipment of the ma
rines has improved in recent years,
new weapons, such as anti-tank and
anti-aircraft guns, are needed, ac
cording to Marine Corps officers.
Unlike the Army, which is equipping
Its infantry soldiers with the Garand
automatic rifle, the marines are still
using Springfield rifles. The use
of the Garand rifle, however, is
under consideration.
The marines have about 1,000
men at Shanghai and another 500
men in North China, divided be
tween Peiping and Tientsin. These
forces are expected to remain in
China as long as the State Depart
ment decides that they are needed
to protect American nationals.
Marine Corps officers are follow
ing closely European war develop
ments. In Norway both the British
and the Germans engaged in land
ing operations, one of the specialities
of the leathernecks. If the Nazis
invade Britian they will face per
haps the most difficult of military
operations—landing troops oh a sea
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coast against .well-organized opposi
tion.
The marines have no plans to
participate this summer in the
Army's large-scale maneuvers. Dur
ing the World War the marines
contributed a bridage to the famous
3d Division of the A. E. F. The
peak strength of the marines In
the World War was about 70,000.
Of these approximately 35,000 served
overseas.
By law, the authorized strength
of the Marine Corps Is fixed at
one-flfth that of the Navy. As the
Navy expands, the marines, too, are
reaching their greatest peacetime
strength.
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Jahore plans to spend large sums
on its roads in the coining year.
New York Traffic Rules
Given for Fair Visitors
Local motorists planning'to go to
the New York World Fair this sum
mer were advised today by the Key
■tone Automobile Club of traffic reg
ulations in New York differing from
those here.
Particular attention, the club
pointed out, should be paid to the
requirement for stopping at any
intersection the motorist is ap
preaching when the traffic light
turns red, even though the light
may be one or two blocks distant.
The club also warned that most
of the New York traffic signals dis
play only two colors, red and green.
i*th a brief "dark period" between.
There is no warning amber signal.
The United States Japanese and
Russian airforces are part of the
army; British, French, German and
Italian airforces are separate.
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