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When the Marshall Islands area was seized from the Japanese, Lt. William S. Green '39 was in the advance Marine contingent to set foot on this territory, the first actually to be conquered, not re-taken from the enemy, in this war. As adjutant of this Marine contingent, he also has the distinction of setting up one of the first Marine headquarters on land that belonged to Hirohito before the war started.

Lieutenant Green, since joining the Service, has been in the foreground on other occasions. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he has not been able to leave civilian life entirely behind him: he is constantly in demand for legal advice among his fellow Marines. Besides this, while an artillery officer, he operated a Post Exchange that did a thriving business of half a million dollars annually. As a Marine merchant jeweler, grocer and barterer-at-large, Green reports, "Operating that business was the business man's idea of heaven. The customer was never right and one couldn't go broke."