An account of this extraordinary group was written up
in the “Collier’s Magazine” and is reprinted below:
By Peter Kalischer
Courtesy of Collier’s Magazine October 25, 1952

Captain James O. Webb, the company commander, was narrow-eyed, high-cheeked, and part Cherokee Indian. Captain James H.A. Flood, the executive officer, was lean, long-headed, and a qualified paratrooper and submariner. They ran an outfit of one hundred forty-four United States Marines, men of a dozen nationalities who spoke many languages--the 1st Marine Division’s Reconnaissance Company better known as the
“Pocket Foreign Legion.” I first heard of the Little Foreign Legion in Tokyo from a Marine sergeant who had been discharged and was on his way home.