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     These MCRC photographs are from the Special Collections Library, Alfred M. Gray Marine Corps Research Center, Quantico, VA.   Pages 1-5 offer digitized photos of the 68 relevant photos in the collection of Captain George F. Stockes, one of the shrewdest and most capable of the Marine Corps officers to operate in Las Segovias.  Capt Stockes, a veteran of the Great War in France, was stationed in Somoto from around August 1927 to April 1929.  On Stockes & his comrades' efforts to hunt down Sandinista General Carlos Salgado & other rebel chieftains in the Honduran borderlands in March-April 1929, see the Top 100, p. 33; on his savvy biography of EDSN Gen. Josι Leσn Dνaz, see p. 44.  In the archival boxes the Stockes photographs appear in random sequence.  Most have no identifying captions; a few have writing on the back.  When they do the writing is also shown.  For higher-resolution photos I'll have to return with a scanner; in the meantime these will have to do.

     MCRC Page 6 houses photos from the Marines' Rνo Coco expeditions in 1928 from the Gray Research Center, digital files kindly contributed by Karl Offen of the University of Oklahoma and David C. Brooks of the U.S. Department of State.  There's a lot more that isn't yet included or even inventoried here.  It's a big library. 

Page 1    Captain George F. Stockes Collection, Part I

Marine patrol crossing stream near Somoto • Patrol on hillside near Somoto, 28 Sept. 1928 • Patrol near La Palanca, Nicaragua, 28 Sept. 1928 • Patrol near La Palanca, 28 Sept. 1928 • Stockes, Shaw, and a third officer, La Palanca, Nicaragua, 28 Aug. 1927 • Patrol marching up hillside, Western Segovias • Marine Corps biplane •  Three Marines posing by a tree •  Campesino in field with burro • Marines on patrol • Capt. Stockes with gathering of Marines and natives • Marines conferring near their barracks • Native man dressed in white • Burro • "The land God forgot," Mylote, Nicaragua, near Honduran border, Sept. 1928   (15 photos)

Page 2    Captain George F. Stockes Collection, Part II

Four Marines seated outdoors • Two Marines and one native seated outdoors • Election day, San Lucas near Somoto, 4 Nov. 1928 • Grave markers of two Marines, Somoto, 1928 • Marines butchering a calf in the field • Segovian mountains with fog • Segovian mountains shrouded in fog • Segovian mountains in fog • Fog lifting over Segovian mountains • Segovian mountains • Segovian mountains • Segovian mountains with patrol in foreground • Segovian village • Volunteer forces between Santa Marνa and Yucatαl, Nicaragua • Volunteer forces between Santa Marνa and Yucatαl   (15 photos)

Page 3    Captain George F. Stockes Collection, Part III

Patrol on the march • Patrol fording shallow river • Patrol marching through low brush • Patrol fording stream • Pedro the dog, San Juan de Limay, May 1928 • Lt. Salzman with George the Mule, 50th Co., San Lucas • Guardia Soldier with wife and child • Guardia barracks, Somoto • Mounted patrol heading out of Somoto • Foot patrol across the plains • Marines at rest outside building • Patrol through pine forest • Patrol stopped on hillside • Foot patrol along trail in flatlands • Foot patrol through mountains   (15 photos)

Page 4    Captain George F. Stockes Collection, Part IV

Foot patrol down stream • Foot patrol approaching settlement • Marines resting on log along trail • Two armed mounted men in open forest • Segovian Village • Three Marines in camp • Betty the deer, mascot of 50th Co., Somoto, August 1928 • Gathering of citizens, Somoto • Marine barracks, Somoto, October 1928 • Somoto, with Somoto Mountain in the Distance, August 1928 • Mounted Patrol with Lts. McHenry and Shaw, August 1928 • Nine Marine Officers, Somoto, July 1928 • Four Marine Officers, Four Nicaraguans, Somoto, August 1928 • Voluntarios Gen. Caldera, Col. Cordero, Capt. Espinosa, Somoto, late 1928 • Voluntarios Gen. Caldera, Col. Cordero, Capt. Espinosa, Somoto, late 1928 • Marines and Voluntarios near Somoto   (15 photos)

Page 5    Captain George F. Stockes Collection Part V

Patrol to Paredes • Marines clambering up hillside • Colorized photo of Stockes and another Marine officer • Troops in town square, Somoto • Formal photographs of Captain George F. Stockes   (8 photos)

Page 6    US Marines' Rνo Coco Expedition, 1928

Marines landing boats • Lt. Roberts shooting rapids, 1928 • Marines resting, El Guacate, 1928 •  Upper El Guacate, 1928 • xxx • xxx • xxx • xxx • xxx • xxx • xxx • xxx • xxx • pages in progress xxx •





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