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These are some pictures my daughter took on our visit to Korea, in September/October 2010.
The first is the vacant city in N. Korea, unoccupied and supposedly built for propaganda.
The second & third & fourth is a marker relating to the massacre of officers when they were there to trim a tree in the DMZ and the location of the tree.
Sgt Grit:
Korea 1951! Here's a photo of my brother Sgt. Ken Lonn, F-2-5, when he met up with our cousin Kay Lanky somewhere in the hills of Korea in 1951. I don't recall Kay's unit designation – sorry. Ken was 60mm squad leader.
Sgt. Grunt.
Wonder how many recall the oval dogtag attached here. My son had kept it and I’d forgotten what they looked like until he retrieved it from a box. As indicated, I graduated 12/48 from MCRD S.D. Platoon 96, SSGT Swenson, Cpl Henson and Cpl Ingersol. 1st duty station K-Bay, then PH.
Dedication to the last stand of Fox Company, 1st Marines. Korea 1950
Here's a picture of a 4.2 mortar crew from 1953,Korea,with the 5th marines.At the time it was a very good weapon.I was in 4.2 mortars for three years.My question is are they still in use in the marine corps any more?My guess is they are not because it would be easy to trace where you were firing from.
Carroll Ralph Bassett, 83, of Perico Island, FL, passed away on October 28, 2011. Ralph was born and raised in Johnston, Iowa. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during WWII and Korea. He was wounded in Korea and received the Purple Heart and several other decorations. After his service in Korea, he returned to and graduated from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Ralph then pursued his first career in radio and television broadcasting in Iowa. A few years later, he embarked on his second career in insurance and employee benefits in the Detroit area where he and his wife, Meridee, lived for 40 years until retirement brought them to Bradenton, FL, in 1997. Ralph’s retirement was very active and he continued to golf several times each week and devoted his volunteer energies to the Kiwanis Club of Anna Maria Island. With Kiwanis, he participated in many programs including the Easter Sunrise Service, foster grandparent program at Anna Maria Elementary, and coordinated the Salvation Army holiday bell ringing at the Publix store on the Island. Ralph was a member of the Marine Corps League and greatly enjoyed attending Marine Corps reunions. We found a recording of Ralph that was done in 1999 that we would like to share, it is from his birth til marriage, but most of the recording is of his service in Korea. The link to his oral history is https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/
Picture and Story of VMA 332 in Korea 1953
CPL Ed Zelaskey
How do you order one of his carvings, maybe you should add to your catalog ???
My father was a product of his time. His father was a Sergeant in the Brooklyn 14th with "Black Jack" Pershing in Texas and Mexico and WWI service. My grandfather's uncles were with the Brooklyn 14th (it was the NYS militia at that time). They were combat veterans of the English Army in India in the 1850's and came over to the US as one of the many Irish immigrants of that era. They went through all four years of the Civil War. When the war ended they sent for their youngest brother who became the Family Patriarch. The two older boys never married.
