Your newsletter is GREAT!
I was at Camp Fuji McNair Japan in 1954 to 1955. My outfit was
K-4-12, 3rd Marine Division and I drove a 2-1/2 ton truck. We
conducted maneuvers all over that area. At that time, McNair was
all tents except for the quonset huts which were the head and
showers. All roads leading to Camp McNair was dirt, and we
supplied fuel to Fuji View Hotel in 50 gallon drums.
We gassed up our vehicles by hand pumps and boy it was very cold
in the winter. We also were not allowed to have the potbelly
stoves on overnight. The story goes that someone fell asleep in a
sleeping bag and the tent burned down, he died in that fire, so
the stove was out at taps and you could only put the sleeping bag
over the top of you and use it as a blanket not get into it!
I have attached some pictures that I took with my (Box Camera)
hope you enjoy them and that someone out there remembers Camp
McNair!
Semper Fi
CPL. USMC (the old Corps)
Richard D Tobin