Edwin Allen Pollock was a United States Marine Corps General and a highly decorated combat veteran of World War II and Korea; he commanded both the 1st and 2d Marine Divisions and is the only man to h
General Edwin A. Pollock
From left to right: Lieutenant colonel Leonard B. Cresswell (1st Battalion), Lieutenant colonel Edwin A. Pollock (Executive Officer 1st Marines), Colonel Clifton B. Cates (Commanding Officer 1st Marines), Lieutenant colonel William N. McKelvy (3rd Battalion) and Lieutenant colonel William W. Stickney (2nd Battalion) on Guadalcanal, October 1942
Pollock (left) during the conversation with Brig.Gen. David F. O'Neill, CG, 1st MAW during his inspection tour at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan, July 1956
20th Anniversary of 2nd Marine Division, 1961; from left to right: BG Leonard F. Chapman Jr., GEN Franklin A. Hart ret., LTG Joseph C. Burger, LTG Lewis B. Puller ret., BG Odell M. Conoley, LTG Thomas E. Watson ret., MG James P. Berkeley, MG Clayton B. Vogel ret., MG Robert B. Luckey, LTG Julian C. Smith ret. and GEN Edwin A. Pollock ret
The 1st Marine Division is a Marine division of the United States Marine Corps headquartered at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. It is the ground combat element of the I Marine Expedition
Edwin A. Pollock
…1899 – 5 November 1982) was a United States Marine Corps General and a highly decorated combat veteran of World War II and Korea; he commanded both the 1st and 2d Marine Divisions and is the only man to have served as commanding general of both the Atlantic and Pacific Fleet Marine Force. He had been…
A Marine of the 1st Marine Regiment on Guadalcanal.
Marines of 1st Marine Division fighting on Okinawa, 1945.
Marines of 1st Marine Division at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir.
U.S. Marine Sikorsky HRS helicopters disembarking South Korean marines in April 1952