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Sgt Grit: Enclosed is result of contact between G. Robinson and myself, regarding a prior article I had written. With all the current reference of Korea, thought you'd like to see the resulting pictures.
Thanks for the quick reply, Top.
I thought you might enjoy seeing pictures of the vest I referred to plus the USMC long parkas. First the parka:
Point of interest, At are reunion Anti/Tank Co.5th Marines ( Korea ) Sept.18 at Quantico,National Museum, Marine Base. Going thru the Museum I ran across a Picture that was taken Feb. 7 1953 of myself and my tank driver Norm Bodway carrying out one of the 6 Marines we were able to help. It was at the Samichon Valley also know as 76 alley
As a young man I successfully made an attempt to get away from my father by joining the Corps. I managed to get one of my “connected” friends get me a forged birth certificate, because I was only 16 years old, and as soon as I got it I went down to the Marine Corps recruiting office at the main post office in Chicago, Illinois and enlisted. I was subsequently sent out to MCRD San Diego where I completed my boot camp early in 1952 and went to Camp Pendelton with the 1st Marines for advanced infantry training. Immediately after that I shipped out to Korea in late 1952. I served in Korea until the spring of 1953 when I was wounded and sent home.
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:
