The Footfalls of History She was 5 foot tall and 100 pounds on a wet day. And she was a Marine. Not a WAVE or a WAAC or a SPARS or a CWAC. “They are Marines. They don’t have a nickname and don’t need one,”[i] said General Thomas Holcomb, Commandant of the US Marine Corp. The General wasn’t happy about having women in the Marines, but the losses at Guadalcanal left him with no choice. The portrait of Archibald Henderson, 5th Commandant of the Marine Corp, crashed from the wall