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Historian Bill D. Ross would write about him in 1985: McCarthy was thirty three; overage for a company commander. He was Irish and he looked it: husky, red complexioned, pug nose. Superior officers sometimes found his manner abrasive, but unlike many Irishmen, he wasn't talkative. He was, in fact, laconic and tight-lipped. "I don't like malarkey or bullshit," the Chicagoan often said. But Joe McCarthy knew the uncompromising business of battle; he had the Silver Star for leading his company up a savagely contested hill on Saipan and his men called him "the best damned officer in the Marine Corps."

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  • Joseph J. McCarthy
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  • Historian Bill D. Ross would write about him in 1985: McCarthy was thirty three; overage for a company commander. He was Irish and he looked it: husky, red complexioned, pug nose. Superior officers sometimes found his manner abrasive, but unlike many Irishmen, he wasn't talkative. He was, in fact, laconic and tight-lipped. "I don't like malarkey or bullshit," the Chicagoan often said. But Joe McCarthy knew the uncompromising business of battle; he had the Silver Star for leading his company up a savagely contested hill on Saipan and his men called him "the best damned officer in the Marine Corps."
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  • 1937(xsd:integer)
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  • 1911-08-10(xsd:date)
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death place
  • Palm Beach, Florida
Name
  • Joseph Jeremiah McCarthy
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  • Joseph J. McCarthy
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  • Place of burial
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  • Chicago, Illinois
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  • 1996-06-15(xsd:date)
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Battles
  • World War II
  • - Battle of Iwo Jima
  • - Battle of Roi-Namur
  • - Battle of Saipan
  • - Battle of Tinian
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  • Chief, Chicago Fire Department
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  • Historian Bill D. Ross would write about him in 1985: McCarthy was thirty three; overage for a company commander. He was Irish and he looked it: husky, red complexioned, pug nose. Superior officers sometimes found his manner abrasive, but unlike many Irishmen, he wasn't talkative. He was, in fact, laconic and tight-lipped. "I don't like malarkey or bullshit," the Chicagoan often said. But Joe McCarthy knew the uncompromising business of battle; he had the Silver Star for leading his company up a savagely contested hill on Saipan and his men called him "the best damned officer in the Marine Corps." The building that houses the headquarters of 2nd Battalion 24th Marines in Chicago is named in his honor. Lieutenant Colonel McCarthy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery following a funeral mass at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago.
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