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I received an email from some Purple Heart Recipients who have created a license plate display for 50 POW/MIA states.
They are missing only 5 states………NV, OR, RI, HI, & CA
Is there anyway you could put out a plea for that? You can have them contact me at Marlyce@Veteransgalleria.com.
This is one I have Been Looking To Do For Along Time. I Served From 66 – 69 And loved Every Minite Of It Semper Fi
I served With The 4/12 3rd Marine Divison In 67 – 68 And this For All Of My Brothers That Didn’t Come Home. They Are Not Forgotten . Sempr Fi Forever
Mike Corrado— Marine Vet—outstanding recording artist #3
Marine Sgt. Dakota Meyer Receives Medal of Honor
I read a recent stroy about a formerly skinny guy and USMC Draftee beefed up during Boot Camp and became quite buff as a result. I too was a Draftee in December of 1968 and after four years of college, smoking and drinking beer in addition to not being very fit to begin with failed the initial PT test and spent three weeks in PCP. As it worked out it put me back by three weeks and I did complete the training and got into great shape. I had orders to 'Nam and was an 0811 in two batteries during my tour. When I got back it was the last week of June in 1970 and I had less than six months to go with a non-critical MOS. I got an early out because I failed the PT test that I definitely tried to pass. I knew college was good for something. Marc Woods 09DEC1968-01JUL1970 C1/13 (105's) and 3rd 175Guns
The Patch you are questioning is definitely an LVTH-6 patch, although as a former H-6 Battery Commander stationed at Treasure Island (in San Francisco Bay), I never saw the patch. The H-6, a 1st Wave assault vehicle, never really had an impact since it was really never deployed properly. At one point, in the Vietnam era, our unit and our sister unit at Camp Lejuene, were placed on alert, to replace the Navy's "Swift Boats" in the Delta area. Since we were armored and mechanized, we would have been able to leave the rivers, go ashore with Infantary support and chase the " bad guys." Good thinking … but we were never activated and deployed.
OLD AMTRAC PATCH H-6? … NO ! IT A P-5 PATCH , THE TURRET ON AN H-6 WAS MUCH LARGER AND CARRIED A 105mm RECOILESS SHORT TUBE ON IT , THE P-5 HAD THE SMALLER TURRET THAT MOUNTED A .30 cal. MACHINE GUN
(HOW DO I GET ONE OF THESE?)
the patches look like they may be LVT-H6, but being an old LVT mechanic, I would say that the patch is that of the LVTP5A1 and the weapon is the turret mounted 30 Cal air cooled machine gun. I have a similar patch for the LVTP7 that was given to me by the Royal Thai Marine Corps' Amtrac Bn when I was an instructor teaching a maintenance course in 1981.
I bought something at the flea market over the weekend, and I don’t know what it is.
It is about 8” in length, and the metal is brass. I know it is a Marine Corps. Item. On the back of the brass, it is stamped England.
