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13076 - U.S.Marine Standing Firing Trench Shot Gun, Belleau Wood, 1918 WWII K&C WH Scott was commissioned as aNEW ARRIVAL! U. S. Marine Standing Firing Trench Shot Gun, Belleau Wood, 1918 In June 1918, the United States Marine Corps earned one of its most legendary battle honors in the forests of Belleau Wood, France. As German forces threatened Paris during a major Spring Offensive, the Marines of the 4th Brigade were ordered to hold the line and then attack. Facing entrenched German machine guns, barbed wire, and poison gas, the Marines launched wave after