“He was handsome, he was generous, he was kind,” she said. “He was everything you could ever expect a man to be.” The Marine was stationed first at Twentynine Palms, Calif., and later at Camp Pendleton. He was deployed to Okinawa, Japan, in December and arrived in Iraq last mo...
WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - United States President Barack Obama on Sunday rushed assistance to the Philippines after a super typhoon believed to have killed at least 10,000 people. Obama said the United States will provide additional aid if it is needed. Obama said America "is already ...
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Who Killed John Clayton? Political Violence and the Emergence of the New South, 1861-1893 (review) Sullivan seems to have read every letter, diary, and report written by or about Marines, and quoted most at length. This is a boon to the researcher... CH Moneyhon - 《Civil War History...
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. ...
“Everyone got an opportunity to play Santa,” Lowell said. The Okinawa-based crew has partnered with Delta Company on the program the past few years, Lowell said. Traveling to Alaska helps them get the flight hours they need, he said. ...
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...
Message: Great job on the web site. I was reading about Operation Beaver Cage in May of 1967 and what the Marines went thru. I was only 9 years old at that time but remember those days because my cousin “one of your Marines” was killed there on May 10th 1967 “Cpl. John Michael...