Most pretty good films. But, as a combat veteran of WWII, I recommend "A Midnight Clear." A story of a half an Army I & R squad in the Ardennes...
I toted a Thompson 1928 for 2 years during WWII. I was with the 2/9/3rdMarine Division on Bougainville, Guam and Iwo Jima. I cannot compare this...
Thanks for your comment. Actually we gave not our childhood but our youth.- all of it. When you go off to war as a 17 or 18 year old and see...
(Tia, you asked what I did to be awarded the Silver Star. About ten years ago I wrote this account of an enemy counter-attack on Guam. I am...
I was on Guam when the news of the President,s death was announced. We had recently returned from Iwo Jima and were reorganizing units as well as...
No. there was continuous firing all the time punctuated by explosions of heavy stuff. At night the sounds diminished but as flares were fired over...
Slipdigit. All of them were friends, comrades and buddies. We loved each other as brothers. Yes, all of them. Very few returned and of those,...
Hi, SouthwestPacificVet, Thanks for the compliment about my writing and thanks for picking up on the mention of the the color of Japanese flares....
Following my first post on this forum an unusually large number of people responded with very touching comments. I was encouraged to write more...
Hi LROSSO 216 Ok, I'll go for it in days to come. The name most often used in the L.A. Times was Tom Halsted. This was so long ago and of so...
Hi LRuss0216, A verbal account of anything in which I was involved would be slow and rambling. I do a lot better at collecting my thoughts and...
To; Slipdigit & ggmitchell, First: I went through Boot Camp at Parris Island, SC. and I actually liked it. Being rousted out of bed at 0400 was...
No, I enlisted in 1942 after high school. I had to wait a month until I turned 18 as my parents would not sign off to let go at age 17. As for...
When I look back over the span of years, back to my days of service in World War II, I am overwhelmed by the swift passage of so much time....
I am a newbie on this site but an old Marine from WWII. I served with the 2nd Bn, 9th Marines during the battles for Bougainville, Guam and Iwo...
