George Patton – Major 3rd US Cavalry Fort Myer, Va. Characteristics About This item. Catalog Number: 526- 19. Condition of Item: Good condition, age dirt, edge and corner wear, stains on left end of photo, typical pano creases – please see photographs. Identification: George Patton – Major 3rd US Cavalry Fort Myer, Va. 1921 Original Panoramic Photograph. Other Information : An exceptional original panoramic photograph of Major George Patton when he was in command of the 3rd Squadron, 3rd US Cavalry at Fort Myer, Virginia in Feb of 1921. This is an original photograph that measures 8″ x 27″ and has been shrink wrapped on fiber board. All photos were taken through the plastic cover. International Customers: We do not mark merchandise values below value or mark items as “gifts” – US and International government regulations prohibit this. Tracking can be found by clicking on the Order Details button on your item won page. Thank you for visiting. The free listing tool. The item “George Patton Major 3rd US Cavalry Fort Myer, Va. 1921 Panoramic Photograph” is in sale since Thursday, October 10, 2019. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Militaria\1919-38\Original Period Items”. The seller is “spendnmony” and is located in Kendall, New York. This item can be shipped to United States.
Vintage 1923 USS Texas Battleship BB 35 Photograph Sailor Photo Framed US Navy. Please Be sure to see the Larger Size photos, directly below the Description. Texas US Navy Battleship Photograph. From 1923, Original Photograph of the Second US Navy Battleship. Professionally Framed & Matted. Waterman With, a smaller Photograph of a Sailor & a small Fabric swatch that has Gold-foil Print “1923”. Please refer to the pictures below, for all the specifics. If you need any other info/details, or would like to see additional Pic. Has been grossly misrepresented in description. If you are unsure about fit (measurements), or description of an item.. Get Supersized Images & Free Image Hosting. Create your brand with Auctiva’s. Attention Sellers – Get Templates Image Hosting, Scheduling at Auctiva. Track Page Views With. Auctiva’s FREE Counter. The item “Vintage 1923 USS Texas Battleship BB 35 Photograph Sailor Photo Framed US Navy” is in sale since Wednesday, September 27, 2017. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Militaria\1919-38\Original Period Items”. The seller is “acevintagerevivalco” and is located in Lititz, Pennsylvania. This item can be shipped worldwide.
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Vintage 1921 US Army 1st Bombing Wing Panoramic Photograph Langley Field VA WWI. Please Be sure to see the Larger Size photos, directly below the Description. Vintage, US Army Military Panoramic Photograph. Rare Photograph from June 1921 (shortly after WWI ended). Shows the Officers of the First Bombing Wing, at Langley Field VA. In the Background an assembly of Military Planes & Bi-Planes can be seen marked Photo by E. Souza, Washington DC a Great Historical Photograph, showing a pivotal time in the development of Military Flight & Air power! #2 of 2 Great Photographs acquired from the same estate. The first panoramic photograph is another view of the same Group & field. At this time Langley was home to the newly organized’Air Service’.. Billy Mitchell, who had commanded legions of Allied planes in World War I, was intent on proving the combat value of a weapon still widely and stubbornly dismissed by such figures as Asst. Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Mobilizing the young airmen of Langleys pioneering Air Service Tactical School, Mitchell instituted a revolutionary training program designed to pit aerial bombs against seemingly impregnable battleships, which most strategists of the day saw as the nations best coastal defense. Billy Mitchell was a very controversial figure. But he knew what he was doing, says John V. Quarstein, author of World War I on the Virginia Peninsula, sizing up the historic demonstrations in which the visionary general and his fliers destroyed the 27,000-ton German dreadnought Ostfriesland and three obsolete American battleships. He saw the future of warfare. And the Langley planes proved him right. Professionally Framed & Matted. With Hanging/mounting hardware on back side Overall Framed Size: approx. Please refer to the pictures below, for all the specifics. If you need any other info/details, or would like to see additional Pic. Will be calculated cost, UPS Ground w/ Tracking # provided. Has been grossly misrepresented in description. If you are unsure about fit (measurements), or description of an item.. Get images that make Supersized seem small. Tailor your auctions with Auctiva’s. Track Page Views With. Auctiva’s FREE Counter. The item “Vintage 1921 US Army 1st Bombing Wing Panoramic Photograph Langley Field VA WWI” is in sale since Saturday, March 24, 2018. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Militaria\1919-38\Original Period Items”. The seller is “acevintagerevivalco” and is located in Lititz, Pennsylvania. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada.
APPROXIMATELY 11 INCHES TO 7. 5 INCHES IN SIZE. Upper left corner tip chipped , otherwise a clean item. SORRY FOR THE FLASH LIGHT REFLECTIONS and sorry for our poor camera. The photo is very sharp and clear. Please do see the pics for the text on the reverse side. The Story of the American Expeditionary Forces. Doughboys Marching Through Siberia. It was a war few Americans knew about then or now. Orchestrated behind closed doors, inspired by panic, and plagued by futility, America’s military intervention in Siberia during the First World War continued long after the Armistice sent the doughboys in France home. President Woodrow Wilson considered the order to send American troops to Siberia, a region besieged by civil war, lawlessness, and murder, one of the most difficult decisions of his presidency. Despite Russia’s separate peace treaty with Germany ending the war on the Eastern Front early in 1918, Wilson hesitated to get involved in Russia’s civil war even at the Allies insistence. By Summer 1918 things changed. The mounting Japanese occupation of Siberia threatened American business interests in the East. Piles of Allied military goods amassing to over 600,000 tons of war materials laid vulnerable around the crowded city. [1] The plight of the stranded Czech Legion vulnerable to the merciless Red Army gave Wilson a much needed moral foundation for intervention. Intervention, Wilson realized, could be used later to pressure the Allies into adopting his ideas for a League of Nations. Alone at his typewriter, Wilson outlined America’s intentions in sending troops to Siberia in a seven-page document titled, Aide Memoire. It was distributed to the Allies July 17, 1918. [2] Based on complete neutrality in Russian politics and territorial integrity, it contained more diplomatic hypotheses than decisive military strategies. It was the only directive given to the commander of America’s military in Siberia. Forces in Siberia, the War Department turned to Major General William S. Graves, an intelligent and experienced officer training Eighth Division recruits at Camp Fremont, California for duty in France. On August 2, 1918, Graves received a mysterious message from the War Department ordering him to take the first train directly to Kansas City. [3] At the train station, Secretary of State, Newton D. Baker handed Graves an unsigned copy of the Aide Memoire: This is the policy of the United States in Russia which you are to follow. Watch your step; you will be walking on eggs loaded with dynamite. [4] Graves was now Commander of the AEF, Siberia. The first American troops, 1,590 from the Twenty-Seventh Infantry Regiment, arrived in Vladivostok to a cheering crowd of White Russians on August 16, 1918 followed by 1,421 troops from the Thirty-First Infantry Regiment on August 21. [5] Under the temporary command of Colonel Henry D. Styer, they disembarked into a city buried in the depths of anarchy, collapse, and ruin. Streets were littered with debris. A rancid stench filled the air. Local leaders battled for control. Without orders, Styer and his men waited for Graves to arrive and wondered why they were in this godforsaken place. In the meantime, Colonel Styer agreed to send a regiment from the 27th Infantry to accompany a Japanese division on a reconnaissance operation along the Trans-Siberian Railway. The Japanese told Styer that 15,000 German and Austrian prisoners of war and Bolsheviks headquartered in the Ussuri Valley threatened Vladivostok. [6] Despite the frigid temperatures and difficult ground, the regiment marched over 1,000 miles in pursuit of the retreating Bolsheviks resulting in the capture of Blagoveschensk. [7] The Russians, impressed with American drive, nicknamed the 27th Infantry, the “Wolfhounds”. Major General Graves arrived at Vladivostok on September 1, 1918 with 5,000 Eighth Division troops. Finding no threat to the city, he ordered the troops back to their garrison. Graves had hoped to avoid situations like the Ussuri Campaign, and interpreted from the Aide Memoire that U. Troops were not here to fight Russia or any group or faction in Russia. [8] A strict policy of neutrality was immediately announced to the troops. Bolsheviks and White Russians would be treated equally. By the time Graves arrived in Siberia, circumstances had changed. The Czech Legion no longer needed rescuing. The Japanese had 72,000 troops spread all over the region. [9] The search for German and Austria-Hungarian prisoners of war was unnecessary as they willingly turned themselves in preferring American rations and humane treatment to freedom. With little else do to, American troops patrolled and guarded the city. The Armistice in November 1918 ending the conflict in Europe gave Graves and most American soldiers in Siberia hopes of returning home. Instead, four American companies settled with the first snows of winter 300 miles south in Spasskoe. [10] While Congress questioned the intervention, Wilson found new excuses for the troops to stay. In Formation in the Snow. American troops survived a dismal winter. Temperatures frequently dropped to below sixty degrees. Frostbite was common and in some cases led to amputation. The Chief Surgeon noted that “practically” no sanitary conditions existed. [11] Drinking at the popular vodka houses and engaging prostitutes became the most popular pastimes for many bored and lonely doughboys needing an escape from the harsh conditions. By Spring 1919, the 27th Infantry found themselves divided between the Trans-Baikal region and Habarovsk on the Amur River; while detachments of the 31st Infantry were distributed along the railroad from Vladivostok to the Suchan Valley. [12] In March, the need to transport military supplies and maintain communications for the White Russians produced the Inter-Allied Railway Agreement which divided the 6,000 mile-long Trans-Siberian Railway into sectors. [13] Allied military detachments would protect their sectors from guerilla attacks and keep the railway and lines of communication open. Graves immediately issued orders to his troops: Our aim is to be of real assistance to all Russians in protecting necessary traffic movements within the sectors on the railroad assigned to us… All will be equally benefited, and all will be treated alike by our forces… [14] However, the railway was the main artery of White Russian forces and American detachments soon discovered that Russians along the Trans-Siberian Railway sympathized with the Bolsheviks. At the village of Sviyangino, Bolshevik Partisans frequently wrecked havoc with the tracks and telegraph poles. As one soldier noted, “Almost daily we had been called to repair destroyed stretches [of track]”. [15] At Novitskaya, a Partisan ambush led to the deaths of five American soldiers. [16] Partisan duplicity disturbed most Americans. Cossack guerilla bands plagued American detachments along the railroad. Cossack warlords such as Semenov and Kalmikov were pathological murderers who tortured, raped, and decapitated innocent Siberians. Nick Hochee of the 27th Infantry later recalled Kalmikov: His cutthroat Cossack Army was one of the most ruthless, cruel, inhuman animals of that time. [17] Graves and American officers constantly received pleas from local Russians for protection against the Cossacks. American soldiers also became the targets of Cossack terror. Colonel Styer informed Graves in February 1919: [Kalmikov’s] power of life and death has been so indiscriminately used as to create a reign of terror, and the life of no solider or civilian is safe. [18] At Posolskaya, Cossocks commanded by Semenov opened fire with machine guns from their armored train into a boxcar of sleeping doughboys. At Habarovsk, Kalmikov’s men killed an American Signal Corpsman working on a telegraph pole. The Japanese financed many Cossack guerillas and condoned similar violence against the Russian people. Outnumbering Americans 10 to 1, they masked terror as anti-Bolshevism. [19] The last thing many innocent people witnessed was the blade of a Japanese sword toward their throat. Bitter relations between American and Japanese officers resulted in March 1919 when Graves refused to participate in their counterattack against a group of Partisans who had killed 247 Japanese soldiers. [20] Graves replied that the Japanese probably deserved it. Graves had other difficult matters to attend. A miner’s strike instigated by the Red Army in the Suchan Valley immobilized coal production needed by the railroad. The American detachment sent to the Suchan Mines had to restore stability without interfering between the Bolshevik miners and Anti-Bolshevik administration. Graves’s refusal to arrest striking miners infuriated Anti-Bolsheviks who accused him of harboring Red sympathies. On May 23, 1919, Bolshevik leader Yakov Triapitsyn, who had assisted striking miners, threatened to murder every American soldier in the Suchan Valley unless they withdrew from the area. [21] Graves ordered that all Partisans be removed by force. In August, Captain B. Roads with a 40-man detachment did just that. Triapitsyn retreated from the valley, and the mines operated quietly from then on. Patrolling a sector near Romanovka , American soldiers from the 31st Infantry, now nicknamed the Polar Bears, faced certain death. At 4am on June 25, 1919 Partisans opened fire into their camp. [22] Using single shot rifles, the Partisans took advantage of the unguarded camp left vulnerable between sentries and surrounded it. According to Sergeant Joseph B. Longuevan bullets pierced into their tents causing “some of the cots to topple” and one solider [was] hit 17 times. [23] In the panic, few soldiers grabbed rifles or ammo as they headed for cover in nearby log houses. Outnumbered 20 to 1, they faced an imminent slaughter. [24] Running low on ammo and seeing no reprieve, Corporal Brodnicki volunteered to go for help. Although seriously wounded, he found another American company. Four hours after the first gunshots, machine gun fire from Lieutenant Lorimer’s platoon on the enemy’s flank caused the Partisans to withdraw. [25] American casualties were heavy: 26 men died in the first minutes alone. In Iman, just north of Vladivostok, Kalmikov’s men kidnapped an American captain and corporal. The captain managed to escape, but the corporal remained. Shamotulski arrived at Iman with 150 men from rifle and machine gun detachments for a showdown with the Cossacks. [27] While the Japanese threatened to side with the Cossacks in an attack, Shamotulski stood his ground and they backed off. Brutally beaten and tortured by his captors, the corporal was released days later. Graves suspected the Japanese had orchestrated the whole thing. American detachments along the railroad found themselves exposed to increasing harassment from Partisans and Cossacks. On September 12, 1919, American headquarters at Spasskoe received orders to use their entire force against any Cossack attacks. [28] By December, American soldiers were in grave danger of a massive assault. Graves cabled the War Department: Safety of American troops demands concentration which results in abandoning parts of our sector. [29] The orders were approved. The White Russian Army was defeated at the Volga Front. The Siberian government collapsed. Congress demanded the complete withdrawal of American troops. Wilson realized the intervention was over. Without grace nor glory, American forces left Siberia. As Graves left with the last troops on April 1, 1920, a Japanese band played “Hard Times Come Again No More”. [30] The intervention, which cost the lives of 353 American soldiers (including 127 listed as killed in action despite suspicions that they had been taken as prisoners) was officially over. Major General Graves never overcame the plague of accusations that he harbored Red sympathies. Years later, Secretary Baker confessed, The expedition was nonsense from the beginning and always seemed to me one of those sideshows born of desperation. [32] An insufficient number of troops, political misconceptions, a lack of military strategy all contributed to the failed intervention. And yet, the war against Bolshevism had every opportunity for victory. Trotsky remarked at the time, When the Allies manage to act unanimously and undertake a campaign against us, all shall be lost. [33] Coordinated effort, a clear purpose, and more troops had the chance to make history. The local Russians they protected, the harsh winters they endured, the atrocities they tried to stop, and the railroad they rebuilt time and time again defy all definitions of failure. Graves of US Soldiers in Siberia. International rates are much higher. We also appreciate to have your feedback. Thanks for browsing this listing. The item “AMAZING VINTAGE REAL PHOTOGRAPH US ARMY 27TH INFANTRY AT SIBERIA WWI 1918 1919″ is in sale since Monday, November 21, 2016. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Militaria\1919-38\Original Period Items”. The seller is “turn-key” and is located in Oakland, California. This item can be shipped worldwide.
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The USS Arizona Battleship (BB-39) (pre World War II image, circa 1930). Mounted in an ornamented and gilded Antique, Wide Arched, Frame. Image is a High-Def Digital Reproduction. Frame is in good+ condition with light normal wear. Professional restoration and framing. Hanging wire and hardware included. The frame measures 11 3/8″ x 19 5/8″ inches on the interior and 14″ x 22″ inches on the exterior. Ready for wall mounting. No Hidden Charges EVER! From listing’s end date. TIME IS RUNNING OUT! The item “USS Arizona Battleship Reproduction Photograph Mounted in Antique Arched Frame” is in sale since Tuesday, October 11, 2016. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Militaria\1919-38\Reproductions”. The seller is “carbonatombooks” and is located in Santa Rosa, California. This item can be shipped to United States.
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Post-World War I U. Army Balloon Company – Photograph Album – 1920s. New England Photograph Album featuring what appears to be the Army’s 531st Balloon Company at Boston circa 1921. Various New England locations. The album contains 58 black and white photographs, most measuring approximately 2.5″ x 4.5″. Most photographs are in nice shape and held to the page with corner mounts; a few have light corner creases. Minor wear to the cover and pages. The highlight of the album is a section with 19 photographs of a post-WWI Army Balloon Company. One of the photographs is annotated on the reverse in pencil, 531st BC. The 531st Balloon Company was a reserve unit located in the Boston area in the early 1920s. Unit members holding an American flag, A military balloon being inflated, Men climbing into a balloon’s basket, A balloon ascending, A balloon in flight and Bird’s-eye views taken from a balloon. Other sections of the album contain earlier photographs of. John’s Chapel, campus grounds, crew practice, a baseball game, etc. , An auto trip scenery, very muddy roads, two autos stuck in the mud, etc. , A farm (hay stacks, corn field, cargo truck), and Several street scenes (marked New Bedford on the reverse) showing a book and shoe store, hotel, tobacco and fruit store, and millinery. View My Other Items For Sale. I know that this can be expensive, but I’ve switched to this method because I’ve had too many claims of non-receipt by international buyers. Please don’t assume anything that is not specifically stated or shown on this listing page. This is a Read’Em Again Books. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). We think that you’ll find our prices to be very competitive with other internet booksellers. In addition to a nice selection of Americana, diaries, journals, photograph albums and other unique personal narratives, we also maintain a small stock of children’s books, illustrated books, unusual non-fiction as well as ephemera, prints, sheet music, maps, and occasionally postcards antique toys & games, tobacciana, and breweriana. The item “Post-World War I U. S. Army Balloon Company Photograph Album 1920s” is in sale since Tuesday, July 28, 2015. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Militaria\1919-38\Original Period Items”. The seller is “ksanftleben” and is located in Dumfries, Virginia. This item can be shipped to United States, to Canada, to United Kingdom, to China, to Mexico, to Germany, to Japan, to France, to Australia, RU, DK, RO, SK, CZ, FI, HU, LV, LT, MT, EE, GR, PT, CY, SI, SE, ID, to Taiwan, TH, to Belgium, to Hong Kong, to Ireland, to Netherlands, PL, to Spain, to Italy, to Austria, IL, to New Zealand, SG, AE, QA, KW, BH.
Photograph Album – 1934 Arctic Cruise of the U. Coast Guard Cutter Northland. This album (about 8″ x 14″) contains approximately 150 photographs of the. The attractive leather “Logalbum” cover features a multi-color relief illustration of the. Photographs range in size between approximately 2.5″ x 3.5″ and 4″ x 6″. Was a gunboat especially designed for Arctic waters; it was the last cruising cutter equipped with a tall-masted sailing rig. In 1948 she was named. And became the first flagship of the fledgling Israeli Navy. Some of the photos include. The Northland under sail. He bridge with an able seaman at the helm. The radio room, deck scenes. View from the crow’s nest. Street scenes of Nome. Firing a machine gun. Firing the port and starboard guns on the 4th of July, and more. The album and photographs are in nice shape. One of the album closure snaps has been repaired. Some photographs have been removed from the album. View My Other Items For Sale. I know that this can be expensive, but I’ve switched to this method because I’ve had too many claims of non-receipt by international buyers. Please don’t assume anything that is not specifically stated or shown on this listing page. This is a Read’Em Again Books. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). We think that you’ll find our prices to be very competitive with other internet booksellers. In addition to a nice selection of Americana, diaries, journals, photograph albums and other unique personal narratives, we also maintain a small stock of children’s books, illustrated books, unusual non-fiction as well as ephemera, prints, sheet music, maps, and occasionally postcards antique toys & games, tobacciana, and breweriana. Get Images that Make Supersized Seem Small. Auctiva’s Listing Templates improve your auctions in minutes. Attention Sellers – Get Templates Image Hosting, Scheduling at Auctiva. The item “Photograph Album 1934 Arctic Cruise of the U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland” is in sale since Friday, December 18, 2015. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Militaria\1919-38\Original Period Items”. The seller is “ksanftleben” and is located in Dumfries, Virginia. This item can be shipped to United States.
Photograph Album – US Marine Occupation of Haiti – 1925-26. Photograph Album Documenting the U. Marine Corps Occupation of Haiti. Compiled by Private First Class Forest Paul Kraemer. Almost 300 photographs on about 40 leaves contained in a 10 x 13 album. The photographs range in size from 1.5 x 4.5 to 6.5 x 8.5. About 215 of the photographs document Private Kraemers duty in Haiti with the 2nd Marine Regiment between 1923 and 1925. The remainder of the images show family and friends. The photographs have been attached with mounting corners; several have been reattached with tape. Almost all of the Haiti photographs are captioned in white ink. The photographs and album pages are in nice shape. But has six holes on the front cover where medallions have been removed. The other was likely a Marine Corps Eagle, Globe, and Anchor. Several photographs have been removed and a clipped image of the marine detachment from the U. Rochester has been crudely taped to the first page. Kraemers name is inside the front cover. This collection of photographs shows Haitians, Citadel Laferriere, Port au Prince, Cape Haitian, towns and villages, the countryside, views of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, victims of shark attacks, a man with elephantiasis, and most importantly the country’s occupation by the U. The photographs include Marine Corps and Gendarmerie buildings as well as marines parading, training, shooting at the rifle range, relaxing, swimming, playing baseball, and competing in a track and field meet. Several photos show identified U. Navy ships at anchor. Of special interest are images of the Commandant, Major General LeJeune, and the Haitian High Commissioner John Russell (a Marine Corps Brigadier General who would become Commandant). Kraemer apparently was friends with some of the marines assigned to Marine Corps Fourth Air Squadron as a number of the photographs show aircraft JN-4 land planes, an HS-2 seaplane, plane crashes, planes lined up for inspection, etc. As well as birds-eye-views of the country. A highlight of the album is a group of three images showing one of the Marine Corps DH-4B airplanes that set a then-new-long-distance record of 12,500 in late 1923, flying–over three months–to San Francisco and back. Tolusciak, the plane’s co-pilot who would later die in a fiery crash, is shown in two of the photographs. In one of the most despicable uses of military force in America’s history, President Woodrow Wilson deployed the U. Marine Corps to Haiti to protect the financial interests of deserving Democrats and political cronies who owned the National Bank of New York City and the Haitian American Sugar Company. The subsequent occupation was one of the Marine Corps’ most inglorious banana war actions. Although the Marine Corps imposed the strictest of censorship, reports of their heavy-handed subjugation of the Haitians eventually leaked out, and James Weldon Johnson conducted a fact-finding mission in which, among other atrocities, he found. Means merely the hunting of ragged Haitians in the hills with machine guns. The Occupation seized men [to build roads] wherever it could find them, and no able-bodied Haitian was safe from such raids, which most closely resembled the African slave raids of past centuries. Those who protested or resisted were beaten into submission. Armed taskmasters swiftly discouraged any slackening of effort with boot or rifle butt, the victims were herded in compounds. Those attempting to escape were shot. It is chiefly out of these methods that arose the need for pacification. Many men of the rural districts became panic-stricken and fled to the hills and mountains. Others rebelled and did likewise, preferring death to slavery. These refugees largely make up the. Forces, to hunt down which has become the duty and the sport of American Marines, who were privileged to shoot a. Brutalities and atrocities on the part of American marines have occurred with sufficient frequency. Marines talk freely of what they “did” to some Haitians in the outlying districts. I learned from the lips of American Marines themselves of a number of cases of rape of Haitian women by marines. I often sat at tables in the hotels and cafes in company with marine officers and they talked before me without restraint. I remember the description of a. Hunt by one of them; he told how they finally came upon a crowd of natives engaged in the popular pastime of cock-fighting and how they “let them have it” with machine guns and rifle fire. Johnsons report prompted a superficial 1922 Congressional investigation which Johnson accurately noted was on the whole, a whitewash, ignoring testimony of Haitian witnesses, covering up the role of National City Bank, and exonerating the marines, while concluding that the Occupation was all that stood between Haiti and chronic revolution, anarchy, barbarism, and ruin. As retired Marine General Smedley Butler later summarized, War is just a racket. I wouldn’t go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues. [and] I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. View My Other Items For Sale. I know that this can be expensive, but I’ve switched to this method because I’ve had too many claims of non-receipt by international buyers. Please don’t assume anything that is not specifically stated or shown on this listing page. This is a Read’Em Again Books sale. We think that you’ll find our prices to be very competitive with other internet book sellers. In addition to a nice selection of Americana, diaries, journals, photograph albums, and other unique personal narratives, we also maintain a small stock of children’s books, illustrated books, unusual non-fiction as well as ephemera, prints, sheet music, maps, and occassionally postcards, antique toys & games, tobacciana, and breweriana. Auctiva Free Image Hosting. Show off your items with Auctiva’s Listing Templates. The item “Photograph Album US Marine Occupation of Haiti 1925-26″ is in sale since Friday, August 26, 2016. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Militaria\1919-38\Original Period Items”. The seller is “ksanftleben” and is located in Dumfries, Virginia. This item can be shipped to United States.