{"id":2148,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2148"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"smith, holland mctyeire, 1882-1967  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2148","title":{"rendered":"SMITH, HOLLAND McTYEIRE, 1882-1967"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marine Corps general.  Born&#8211;  Apr. 20, 1882 in Seale, Russell Co., Ala.  Parents&#8211;   John V. and Corrie E. (McTyeire) Smith.  Married&#8211;  Ada B. Wilkinson in 1909.  Children&#8211;  One.  Education&#8211;  Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S.; University of Alabama, LL.B.  Admitted to bar in 1903 but left practice after two years; commissioned U.S. Marines in 1905 and served in France in World War I; successful trainer for combat, known as &#8220;father of modern amphibious warfare&#8221;; in World War II led marine invasions of Tarawa, Taipan, and Iwo Jima, gaining nickname &#8220;Howlin&#8217; Mad&#8221;; later commander of fleet Marine force in Pacific; retired 1946 as full general. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4; National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. G.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coral and Brass.  New York;  Scribner, 1949.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Marine Corps general. Born&#8211; Apr. 20, 1882 in Seale, Russell Co., Ala. Parents&#8211; John V. and Corrie E. (McTyeire) Smith. Married&#8211; Ada B. Wilkinson in 1909. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S.; University of Alabama, LL.B. Admitted to bar in 1903 but left practice after two years; commissioned U.S. Marines in 1905 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}