Earl Hancock Ellis
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Lieutenant Colonel Earl Hancock "Pete" Ellis was a United States Marine Corps Intelligence Officer, and author of Operations Plan 712: Advanced Base Operations in Micronesia, which became the basis for the American campaign of amphibious assault that defeated the Japanese in World War II.
Earl Hancock Ellis
Brigadier General Wendell C. Neville, commanding the 4th Marine Brigade, together with members of his brigade staff, France, August 1918. Lieutenant Colonel Earl H. Ellis is stood in the back row, third from the left.
John A. Lejeune
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John Archer Lejeune was a United States Marine Corps lieutenant general and the 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps. Lejeune served for nearly 40 years in the military, and commanded the U.S. Army's 2nd Division during World War I. After his retirement from the Marine Corps he became superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute.
John A. Lejeune, (Major General) U.S. Marine Corps, 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps (1920–1929)
The senior officers of the 1st Marine Brigade photographed at Veracruz in 1914. Front row, left to right: Lt. Col. Wendell C. Neville; Col. John A. Lejeune; Col. Littleton W. T. Waller, Commanding; and Maj. Smedley Butler.
Major General Omar Bundy, former commander of the 2nd Division, and Major General John A. Lejeune of the USMC, the division's current commander, at Marbache, France, August 11, 1918.
Lejeune with his insignia of commander in the French Légion d'honneur.