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Here are 2 of the pictures. The one of the platoon I do have the names of the individuals, they are: Front: Burt Eddings, F. Thorpe, W. Raymond, L. M. Golden, Bobo Porter, H. A. Cushing, LT. McDonald, Don Stout, Fred DeSomme, Jerry Schwartz, Floyd Hileman, M. M. Silver, R. B Ziegler. BACK: Louie Hansen, L. R. McMahon, W. R. Ringrose, A. J. Zimmerman, H. L. Straha
Here are some Photos from the Saipan invasion. They are from the: 121st NCB – 3rd BN, 20th Marines, 4th Marine Division photo albumn.(left)
Vella Lavella – August, 1943. Seabees and a Company of Motor Transport Marines landed on an August morning and were greeted almost immediately by a Japanese air attack. One of the LST’s they arrived on took a direct hit. Other Photos are some of Pappy Boyington’s gang on Vella Lavella.(right)
The uniforms are all from the 1945 era. I couldn’t find anything specific about “Dress Blues” in that era except picture 4 (right). That Marine has the “Dress Blues” on but I can’t see clearly the differences between that uniform and the current one.
So if you could show them these pictures and just ask them their opinion, I would be much appreciative.
Travis Wishon
Sgt Grit
My name is Gary Arney I have pictures from Bougainville, Guadalcanal, Guam, Iwo Jima, Kwajalein, Okinawa & Saipan. Places where my Dad, Phil Arney, landed and fought in WWII.
Semper Fi
Gary
Guadalcanal, at the time I was there, was a tropical paradise of sticky heat, coconuts, and mud, land crabs and Japanese bombers that drove us to the fox holes every night or so…and rats. Our contingent of military novices was housed in tents at Lunga Beach, and the rats looked in our tents as the nightly equivalent of Disney Land.
Second Marine Division: Guadalcanal, Tulagi, Tanambogo, Gavutu, Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian, and Okinawa
Part One: Guadalcanal August 7, 1942-February 10, 1943
Part Two: Tarawa: November 20, 1943-November 23, 1943
Part Three: Saipan “War in the Canebrakes” June 15, 1944July 9, 1944
A few months back you published letters from Janice Miller of San Mateo and Charlie Leonard of Danville regarding V-E Day, V-J Day and the question of when WWII ended. The upcoming ceremonies at golden Gate National Cemetery on 17 February, 2001, to commemorate the 56th anniversary of the Marine’s landing on Iwo Jima started me thinking about some very little known facts about the war’s end.
(Reprinted with permission of Military magazine, 2122 28th St., Sacramento, CA 95818. A sample copy of Military may be obtained by writing to the above address)
The apologists, revisionists and the “America is always wrong” crowd have been busy as hell this summer. It’s hard to pick up a newspaper or turn on the TV without being told -America was wrong and inhumane for using the A-Bomb on Japan. . . not just by the Japanese, who have yet to even admit they started the war, or did anything wrong. . . but by the bleeding hearts those elitist media snobs have decided are the spokesmen for our conscience.
Howard "Pappy" Young
September 15, 1907 -June 22, 2005 TAPS
In memory of Howard L. "Pappy" Young
Pappy was born in the small Washington State town of Rockford on September 15, 1907 to Ida M. Buster and Coey A. Young. The family, which included in addition to Pappy a daughter Effie and another son named Harold, moved from Rockford to Spokane when Pappy was still a baby. Pappy resided in Spokane until he was called to active duty from the Marine Corps Reserves in 1940.
In the early morning hours of August 7, 1942, elements of the First Marine Division made their way into the landing boats and began the assault on the Japanese held island of Guadalcanal. As in any conflict, there were to be many acts of heroism, untold fear and the seeds of legends. After an unopposed landing and the initial advance into the interior of the island by the Marines, the Japanese decided that it was time to drive the Americans away from Henderson Airfield and back to the beaches where the Japanese Army would annihilate them. The Marines saw it differently and the battle went from a sparing match to a brawl. It was the birth place of major offensive action and the thousands of telegrams that were to be sent to the front doors of American homes from the Pacific for the next three years.