Looking to contact members of PLT 231 San Diego. Graduated 1Nov1955. Senior DI SSgt J.F. CODY, Junior DI M.R. Kowalsky
Harold Gee MgySgt (Ret)
geehlaj@q.com
A China Marine
My father was a late China Marine 1940 to 1941. He was on his way back from China to the US when the Japanese invated the Philippines. He was captured on Corregidor. It took him 3 1/2 years to get back home. He believed that the Corp was the reason he made it through the prison camp when others didn't.
Gene Lang Carvings
How do you order one of his carvings, maybe you should add to your catalog ???
Last of the Polka Dots
Picture and Story of VMA 332 in Korea 1953
CPL Ed Zelaskey
My Marine Corps Pride
You want me to land this….”WHERE?” (video)
You want me to land this…..”WHERE?”
Amazing how skilled the MARINES are.
After An Extract
Hi Dave, thought you might like to see the attached pictures of Bob, taken in or near DaNang sometime in 1971.
The first one was taken after an extract from a SOG mission and the second (in uniform) in front of our billet at Camp Fay, DaNang. These forty-year-old pictures are a little worse for wear – but then so am I. Notice the old summer service 'charley' uniforms – they don't even use them anymore. I have to thank you – and Sgt. Grit – for letting me reminisce once again over old friends and adventures, guts and glory, from long ago.
Helicopter Pilots
Funny cartoon about Helicopter Pilots posted in the July 1977
"The thing is, helicopters are different from airplanes. An airplane by its nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberate incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying, immediately and disastrously. "There is no such thing as gliding helicopter!" "This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why, in general, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooders, introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened, it is about to." – Harry Reasoner July 1977Two Historic Pics
Check out two historic pics.
Cpl. Lou ALbert w/Ontos taken South of Marble Mountain – DaNang while coming off an Operation with Kilo Co 3rd Bn 1st Marines during 1966.
Pic with 106 mounted on an Amtrac while Kilo Company 3rd Bn 1st Marines conducted an Operation on Snaggletooth Is during 1966. Legendary Captain 'Speedy G' Lee Gonzales was CO of Kilo Company. Never before had a 106 been chained and sandbagged on the top of an Amtrac. This pic was taken by Cpl. Lou Albert and has been given to the Marine Corps Museum at MCRD San Diego, CA.
1930 China Marine wood carving
Nov. 20,2011 news letter ref: L/C Richard Jenkins note ref: 1934 China Marines.
This is a wood carving of a 1930 era China Marine. I do wood carving as a hobby and I have Marines in Tropical uni’s, Blues and WW11 herringbone.
Gene Lang