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Clifton Bledsoe Cates (August 31, 1893 – June 4, 1970) served as the 19th Commandant of the Marine Corps from 1948 to 1951, holding the rank of a United States Marine Corps four-star general.
General Clifton Bledsoe Cates, 19th Commandant of the Marine Corps, was born on 31 August 1893 in Tiptonville, Tennessee. After elementary education in country schools, he was sent to the Missouri Military Academy, where he became an honor student and a four-letter man in sports.
19th Commandant of the Marine Corps. 1 January 1948-31 December 1951. Clifton Bledsoe Cates was born on 31 August 1893 in Tiptonville, Tennessee. Appointed from that same state in the...
Thirty years before becoming Marine Commandant, Clifton Cates earned a Navy Cross and a reputation as the Corps' luckiest man during the brutal three-week Battle of Belleau Wood. The village shone like alabaster in the late afternoon sun, a sharp contrast to the tawny open field that splayed before it for 600 yards.
General Clifton B. Cates, present Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, as a colonel, commanded the First Marine Regiment in the initial assault on Guadalcanal and led the Fourth Marine...
Mar 8, 2019 · Clifton B. Cates. A Register of His Papers in the Archives Branch. Archives Branch. Marine Corps History Division. Quantico, VA. 2010. Introduction. The Archives Branch supports the professional military education requirements of Marine Corps residential and distance learning programs.
Mar 2, 2024 · General Clifton Bledsoe Cates, 76, nineteenth Commandant of the Marine Corps, died June 4, 1970, at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Annapolis, Maryland, after a long illness. He was buried with full military honors, June 8, 1970, at Arlington National Cemetery.
