Nicholas A. Canzona

Nicholas A. Canzona was a U.S. Marine Corps officer who also wrote military history. According to the U.S. Naval Institute, he attended St. Mary’s College and the University of Notre Dame before entering Marine Corps Basic School in 1945, was commissioned in 1946, and later served at posts including Midway, Pearl Harbor, Camp Lejeune, and Fort Belvoir.

He is best known as the coauthor, with Lynn Montross, of several volumes in U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950–1953, the official Marine Corps history of the Korean War. Those books include The Pusan Perimeter, The Inchon-Seoul Operation, and The Chosin Reservoir Campaign, and they remain closely associated with the Marine Corps’ historical record of the conflict.

Available records also show that Canzona received the Silver Star for gallantry during the Korean War. I could not confirm a suitable portrait image from the sources I found, so none is included here.