biography
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Ellis, Pete
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popular name of Earl H Ellis
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| male
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| lived:
| (1880–1923)
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| biography:
| US marine officer, born in Iuka, Kansas, USA. The eccentric, hard-drinking son of teetotal parents, he enlisted in 1900, received a commission the following year, and became a leading proponent of Marine Corps amphibious doctrine. He died in suspicious circumstances on the island of Koror (May 1923) while secretly surveying Japanese fortifications in Micronesia. |
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