Eric Talmadge
While the earlier CH-53D models have been involved in a number of accidents, most recently a July, 1985, crash during a training flight in Okinawa that killed four Tustin-based Marines, the flight restrictions were not related to any of the accidents, said Maj. Anthony Rothfork, a spokesma...
The 6th Marine Division was formed on September 7, 1944. It served in Combat inThe Asiatic Pacific Theater of operations;during this time they served in the campaigns ofRYUKYUS. The 6th Marine Division was awarded a Presidential Unit Citation for its fighting on Okinawa. . After the war it ...
By sunset on the first day, 2,400 Marines had been killed or wounded. Four days of bloody fighting later, Mt. Suribachi was captured and the most iconic photo of Marine warfighters was taken: the raising of the American flag at its peak. That was just the opening engagement in what was...
The Marines have intensively focused on improving the readiness of the CH-53E since theJanuary 2016 collisionof two Super Stallions off the coast of Hawaii, which killed 12 Marines. An October 2017 crash of a CH-53 in Okinawa led the Marine Corps to temporarily ground its Japan-based fleet;...
A lot of these brave men and women were either killed or injured and did not gain the respect they deserved until after the war. Many had to quit school, leave their family behind, and risk being killed or injured . Within many of the people who fought for the war were women. Women ...
time but remember those days because my cousin “one of your Marines” was killed there on May 10th 1967 “Cpl. John Michael Reid” and on the day I was leaving my house to to his funeral the Marines pulled my house to tell my Mother that my Dad who was alsoa Marine was wounded...
The plane returned safely to the air base. However, the next day four Marines and a sailor from the 3rd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion, based at Camp Pendleton, showed signs of decompression sickness. They were treated at the Navy hospital in San Diego....
They were “only” 15 among 2,938 Marines killed or missing in action on Okinawa. U.S. Army dead and missing numbered 4,675. Many of the survivors, including Bergman, were ticketed to serve in an invasion of Japan. Bergman was given a “G-2” summary of the Sixth Marine Division’s...
This grandfather was all alone for more than three years on every island he deemed necessary to fulfill his task and monitor the enemy activities until he got killed, but some of you people think this unit of men who risked their lives are not good enough because he was just Army personnel...