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Winter Sports, North Korea, 1950
In early December, 1950 at Yonpo Airfield, North Korea, I was assigned as a member of a team taking a Portable Radar set to the Chosin reservoir. After loading the equipment into a jeep and trailer, we drove over to the squadron mess tent to pick up some C-rations. It was about 8pm at night. At the mess tent we were told to stand down as the Marines at the Chosin were cut off due to other military units retreating, exposing the Marines flank.
loved your news letter and would love to suscribe to it , i come from a marine corps family my father was a p o w on sipan during ww ii ,my oldest brother was a hellcat pilot on the yorktown shot down in battle of midway ,i lost another brother on guadacannal ,and i had two sons that served honorably , and iam a chosin resevor survivor , ,the best thing i ever did was join the marine corps , there is a lot of truth to once a marine allways a marine ,and the pride instilled in me at parris island boot camp i will carry to my grave , i work a lot with veterens and its sad our boys comming home cant get there needs fulfiled ,because of budeget cuts we just got 18 vans shut down to get these boys to hospitals etc. my pet peve is why we as a country turn our backs on our veterens ,someone tell me why after severing two or three tours
Here is a picture of my father in law in During the Korean war. After this he was called the canteen kid. I sent this to my son a third generation Marine, a year ago while he was in boot camp for motivation. and his DI's enjoyed it.
Semper Fi Paul Garrison 79-91
Over Memorial Day, I performed a historical tribute to the USMC in the Korean War at our local Missouri Veterans Home. The uniform and gear dates from WW2/Korea and represents a Marine during the Inchon landing. I also have a pretty complete set of winter uniforms as worn by the Marines in their fight out of the Chosin Reservoir.
Steve Cox
Jose, Kneeling is 'Baggs' Marchese & NC. Look closely behind NC's head and you will see a dark object, that's an M-1, aimed at his head by none other than the illustrious 'JOSE',!!!!!! So now the world knows why NC has to drink beer, he was MADE TOO, by being forced by MR. JAG, or otherwise he probably wouldn't have known what beer taste like.
Hi,I thought you might like to see a couple of old pictures I found .These were taken in 1953 of the prisoners exchange in Korea. I had some of our guys return but so far can't find them. I forgot I still had these. That old camera I had did a pretty good job.I think the exchange was 77,000 north Koreans for 3,597 of our guys.
Sgt Grit,
I subscribe to a weekly email from Military.com which includes links to interesting videos. One recent link was to a video called "One Mile Kill Shot" taken from History Channel. In it, the Marine Corps sniper uses a .50 cal single shot rifle to take out insurgents during an operation in Iraq (http://shock.military.com/Shock/videos.do?displayContent=219051&ESRC=marine-a.nl ). I forwarded this to my dad, retired Marine Colonel Barkley "BB" Yarborough (Enlisted as E1 1943, Retired as O6 1988). He enjoyed watching it and replied as follows:
Hey Sgt Grit,
Found this picture of me as a radio-telegraph operator (MOS2533) in Korea in 1953-54. I was stationed at K-3 airbase with the 1st MAW at Pohang Dong which was about 40 miles north of Pusan . Note the painted on stripes…that's how we did it in those days way before the collar pin-ons today.
I would like to hear from any one who knows anyone in this picture. This was my Uncle's boot camp picture, He went to Korea, was in the Moter Pool.
My Uncle's name is Bill Turney, to the end he could play the Marines Hymn on the piano. also he could not remember his birthday, but he knew every year when the Marine Corp birthday was. He gifted his sister my Mom, with a set of USMC service ware, in which I grew up eating with. I think he knew what he was doing. I found this Picture and the names in some of his things, and would like to hear from anyone who knows or knew anyone in the picture.
Camp LeJeune (2nd Mar. Div) – 1949 – cleaning my BAR – lost it on forward slope of a hill March 2, 1951 courtesy incoming mortar fire. Went over the wall at Inchon Sept. 15, 1950 … served under Lewis “Chesty” Puller at Hagaru at the reservoir. This aside: just prior to the Inchon landing my fire team leader Cpl Boyer, who had served under Puller in WW2, gathered us one evening in the cafeteria of the ship – says “Well children, it goes this way, the 7th got Litzenberg, the 5th got Murray … and we got Puller.” Noticing the puzzled looks, he tossed in ” Puller will enter with a death wish, and will take as many of us with him that he can.”
