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Regarding the Nov. 6th Newsletter topic: Combat or Non-Combat.
I also was disappointed that I did not see any action in Viet Nam during my 4 years ('67-71). After all, that was the reason I took a leave of absence from college AND also had to have my mother sign a waiver for me to enlist. I was a sole surviving son, my dad having died from illness contracted as a result of WWII action in N. Africa and Italy.
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Belfouri, Gomez, Barber, and Dible. This is E/2/3 hill 44 1965. Sometime after Double Eagle and Before Operation Allegheny.
I have really enjoyed your newsletters.
Christopher S. Barker III
Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class
1965-68
Although I am not a Marine or had the chance to serve in the military, I have been in the civilian uniform services for more than 30 years as a police officer, firefighter, and medic. I have two sons that are Marines. My oldest got out a few years ago after several tours in Iraq, and his younger brother insisted on following in his footsteps.
Statue of Cpl. Chuck Lindberg. Chuck was a flame thrower on Iwo Jima and with the first flag raising group on Mt. Suribachi. He died in 2007. This memorial, in his honor, is in Veteran's Park, Richfield, Minnesota.
Norm Spilleth
Cpl. '60 – '64
On Hill 65 with India 3/11, 1968.
Terry D. Campbell
LCpl. 2379xxx
I joined the Marine Corps in December of 1958, went to MCRD San Diego. On November 10, 1959, I was aboard the USS Paul Revere for my first Marine Corps Birthday, and my 18th birthday. Here is the menu of what we had that day, the menu was also a postcard which I sent home. I told my parents the Marine Corps found out it was my birthday and made a special dinner for me.
I was surprised when I read this article. My dad was in WWII and brought home a bayonet. I have pictures of it. This was the same bayonet I was issued in 1957 with my M1 rifle. What is right is a Marine does not attach the bayonet unless he is out is ammo and is in hand to hand combat. The bayonet is carried on his ammo belt and tied to his leg.
A Few bayonet/carbines made it to Iwo.
RR
Although I live in a remote, isolated area, I tend to keep informed about quite a few items of interest. I may have asked this before, or I may have overlooked it, but I have a question about a series of books I read some years ago. They were initially called "Green Side Out," "Brown Side Out," "Run In Circles," "Scream And Shout." They were published (I believe) in the early eighties – I bought them in a bookstore in Oceanside, CA, one weekend while on lib. They were small books and were written by a pair of retired Mustang officers; I think Major or Captain Duncan, and I can't recall the other officer's name. They were filled with humor, sarcasm, and other general stories of their experiences in the Corps.
