The Corps Series - Other Notable Characters

Other Notable Characters

• Captain Jim ("Captain Moustache") Carstairs, USMC - Pick Pickering & Dick Stecker's IP (Instructor Pilot) in Pensacola.
• Brigadier General (previously Lieutenant Colonel) Clyde ("The Dawk:) Dawkins, USMC - Commanding Officer, MAG-21.
• Major Jake Dillon, USMCR - former enlisted China Marine; works for Metro-Magnum Studios and returns to wartime duty as a Major in the Public Affairs office.
• Major (previously Lieutenant) Hon Son "Pluto" Do, USA - Signals & Cryptographic officer attached to MacArthur's headquarters in Australia.
• Lieutenant Colonel (previously Lieutenant) William Dunn, USMC - Executive officer, and later CO, of VMF-229.
• Eric Feldt, Lieutenant Commander, RAN - director of the Coastwatcher organization.
• Ellen Feller - wife of a Christian missionary in China, then a civilian linguist & analyst attached to MacArthur's Australia headquarters; ultimately "hospitalized" as a result of her sexual appetites and the military secrets she knows. Ellen enters the story when she accompanies McCoy on a convoy sent out to seek intelligence on the Japanese.
• Richardson Fowler - Junior Senator from California
• Captain (previously Technical Sergeant) Charles Galloway, USMC - Commanding Officer, VMF-229. Gets into serious trouble when he flies a fighter assembled from scrap at Pearl Harbor to a Navy carrier that is not expecting him.
• Captain David Haughton, USN - Chief of Staff to the Secretary of the Navy.
• Lieutenant General (previously Major General) Thomas Holcomb - Commandant of the Marine Corps; later relieved by Lieutenant General Alexander Archer Vandegrift.
• Caroline Howell - Ed Banning's love interest after returning from the Philippines.
• Frank Knox - wartime Secretary of the Navy
• Major (previously Lieutenant) Robert Macklin, USMC - a "generally slimy creature" and the epitome of everything a good Marine officer shouldn't be.
• Staff Sergeant Thomas McCoy, USMCR - Ken McCoy's younger brother, awarded the Medal of Honor on Guadalcanal and became known as "Machinegun McCoy."
• Carolyn McNamara - Girlfriend of Charles Galloway.
• Major General (previously Brigadier General) D.G. "Doc" McInerney, USMC - Director of Marine Corps Aviation.
• Lieutenant John Moore, USMCR - cryptographic & analysis officer attached to the Office of Management Analysis.
• Brigadier General (previously Lieutenant Colonel) Fritz Rickabee, USMC - Commanding Officer, Office of Management Analysis.
• Major (previously Lieutenant) Edward Sessions, USMC - officer attached to the Office of Management Analysis.
• First Lieutenant Dick Stecker, USMC - Jack Stecker's son and Pick Pickering's buddy.
• Major General Alexander Archer Vandegrift - Commanding General, 1st Marine Division; later served as Commandant of the Marine Corps.
• Captain (previously Lieutenant) James Weston, USMC - pilot who escaped to Mindanao before the fall of Corregidor to fight as a guerrilla.
• Ludmilla Zhivkov - Ed Banning's "white Russian" wife.
• Lieutenant (previously Corporal) Robert Easterbrook, USMC - a short, skinny enlisted combat correspondent on Guadalcanal, fresh from Parris Island and forced to grow up fast in the heat of combat. His ears redden with anger or embarrassment, earning him the nickname "Easterbunny" among his peers (much to his irritation). After he returns to the US for a war bond tour, he's identified in a national news story by "Machinegun McCoy" as "the bravest man on Bloody Ridge."
• Lieutenant General Edward Mallory 'Ned' Almond, USA - Commander of X Corps in Korea.