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With the Marines at Tarawa

This is a very good documentary shot by Marine Combat Camera men during the battle. It won the Oscar for documentaries that year 1944. It is also inte...

11 years ago
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Hear One Soldier’s First-Hand Oral History of Uncommon Valor in World War II’s Battle for Iwo Jima

Ok troops, this has been rescheduled for next Wednesday. Hopefully, the weather hold out!

11 years ago
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Happy 99th birthday - Tony Stefanelli - 36th Engineer

Goodness gracious!! 99??!! Wow, I hope to look that good at that age (or even hope to make that age!) Happy birthday, sir!!

11 years ago
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Happy Vétérans Day to all.

Thank you my firends! I had a good time - we had a long weekend.

11 years ago
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Happy 239th Birthday United States Marine Corps.

Wow! That's a nice cake! I hadn't actually seen one like that before. My wife and I went to the USMC Birthday Ball the other day and it was real fun. ...

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Farewell Harold Bare -36th Engineer

I just started looking through the gallery. Wow! That's a lot of pictures! I better get back to work before I lose an hour or so. Gotta finish at home...

11 years ago
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BOO !

We have local Okinawan children come through our base. Not as many as last year, but still fun.

11 years ago
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The Illustrated 70th Anniversary Archive Ed. - The Longest Day

Sounds like a good book for the collection. I've read it before - it's a good one.

11 years ago
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Mr. Carl Joseph Frigone, member of the 17th Airborne - 139th Airborne Engineer Battalion

Interesting to hear about US Army personnel in German uniforms with a mission to redirect German forces. The same was tried in reverse during the Batt...

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Hear One Soldier’s First-Hand Oral History of Uncommon Valor in World War II’s Battle for Iwo Jima

Well, they had us out on the airfield at 0500 and they started to manifest the plane so I figured we were actually going to go. I should have listened...

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Hear One Soldier’s First-Hand Oral History of Uncommon Valor in World War II’s Battle for Iwo Jima

Well #@!$. [ed. seems they took away the image of the typhoon that was bearing down on the island when I was originally going to go - prompting ...

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Hear One Soldier’s First-Hand Oral History of Uncommon Valor in World War II’s Battle for Iwo Jima

Vee, it's funny you post this, because I was about to start a conversation regarding Iwo Jima (or Iwo To, as it is now called). What I was going to po...

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