"A Marine is at Home Anywhere"

This is a newspaper clipping from one of my father’s albums. There is no date of the photograph mentioned. This is a photo of Chinese citizens outside the main gate to the 1st Marine Division’s headquarters in Tianjin (Tientsin).

The man on the left appears to be a military officer with the Chinese government. Under the photo is a caption that mentions the eagerness of the Chinese to see the Americans and try to speak English to the guards.