“the First Marine Division is the most efficient and courageous combat unit I have ever seen or heard of.”
Major General Frank E. Lowe, USA, 1952
“I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the 1st Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon.”
General of the Armies Douglas MacArthur USA, in conversation with Major General 0. P. Smith, USMC, August 1950.