Interesting snapshot of USMC history since 1920

Virtually every Marine takes great pride in the history of our Corps, and that pride is typically one of many personal reasons which motivated us to enlist or become a commissioned officer. 

This article from the Flagstaff Daily Sun provides a fascinating 100 year historic snapshot of our Corps through 100 pictures and single-sentence highlights since 1920. To use the dated 70's term, I think you'll find the snapshot to be a pretty cool retrospective, and pick up a number of interesting facts along the way.

Just a few quick examples: total USMC headcount in the 1920's was 19,000, the current USMC flag and colors were changed in 1939, the Marine Corps Hymn as we all know it and memorized it, was revised in the 1930's, President Truman almost abolished the Marine Corps in the early 1950's, and finally, I was confident that our first skirmish with the Sandinista's dialed back to the 1980's, when in fact Marines were fighting the Sandinista's in Nicaragua and El Salvador in 1928... 

Happy reading and Semper Fi!