The development of the Soviet Navy has been dominated by two factors. The first is the lack of any historical naval tradition outside the Baltic and the Black Sea. The second, intimately linked with the first, is the adverse maritime geography of the USSR
To him, as to Many thousands of other U.S. Marines. living and dead, our nation and our Corps owe gratitude for the readiness, discipline, and esprit wich enabled the fleet marine Force to launch and win Americas first offensive in World War II.