John W. Thomason Jr - (1893-1944)
About the Author:John W. Thomason, Jr., author, artist, and United States Marine Corps officer, was born in Huntsville, Texas, on February 28, 1893. He entered the United States Marine Corps on April 6, 1917. Thomason's military career began with battlefield action in World War I, in which he fought in five major engagements and fourteen battles, including Belleau Wood, Château-Thierry, San Mihiel, Soissons, and Mont Blanc. His stations after the war included Cuba, Nicaragua, China, and the USS Rochester; he was an aide to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Col. Henry Roosevelt, worked at the Latin-American desk of the Office of Naval Intelligence, and was briefly involved in the Solomon's campaign in World War II. As a writer-artist, Thomason was an illustrator primarily of his own books. Published Books:Fix Bayonets! (Classics of Naval Literature) |
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