Capt Max “Two Gun” Shapiro, USMC…. � ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL)

Capt Max “Two Gun” Shapiro, USMC….

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Capt Max “Two Gun” Shapiro, USMC….
August 26, 2011 Gunny G

I’m sure they left this guy’s part out of the movie version, or I’d remember it.

In the latter chapters of the book, Battle Cry, by Leon Uris, the Bn Co, LtCol Huxley (Highpockets), is in his office with his XO, Major Wellman. They are dicussing a new officer due to report aboard. The officer is Max Shapiro; a Marine legend and known as “Two Gun Shapiro.”

His record told a story of transfers, demotion, courts-martial, citations for valor, and promotions. It was a book of contradictions.

Huxley knew he was a troublemaker, but, Huxley told Wellman, the book tells only part of the story. He knew that the name Two Gun did not refer to Shapiro as an expert with weapons, on the contrary, Shapiro had bad eyes, the story goes that he had sneaked up on a Jap at close range and fired two clips of forty-fives and missed every shot.

Huxley had heard of him back some 10 years prior, Shapiro’s father had gotten him into West Point.......
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