Romain V Cansiere

Romain V. Cansiere is a native of Avignon, southeastern France, with a university diploma in agronomic technology from Provence University (Digne les Bains) (Diplôme Universitaire et Technologique en Agronomie) and a vocational degree in agriculture from Pays de la Loire University (Angers) (License Professionnelle en Agriculture). He has worked in the medicinal plant industry and plant disease research in France and South Africa, and is presently an agricultural advisor to a farmer’s cooperative growing crops for essential oils in southern France. Interested in the US Marine Corps and the Pacific War since his teenage years, he is the webmaster for the commemorative website tanksontarawa.com, and a member of the Saumur Tank Museum Association in France. He is the co-author of Tanks In Hell: A Marine Corps Tank Company On Tarawa, winner of the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation’s 2016 General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award for an outstanding non-fiction book about the Marine Corps life. Romain’s current research centers on the US Marine Corps in France, 1917 – 1918, and the organization and history of the Fleet Marine Force in the 1941 – 1945 Pacific War, especially the tank battalions.