That is awesome!
Transferred from Active Duty to Fleet Reserve in 1945 Promoted to Lt. while in Fleet Reserve 1948 Resigned Commission in 1955- no further...
Doubt it. Frank Merrill was a New Englander, Ray is from Saline County Missouri.
Angels=Thousand feet Cherubs= hundreds feet
I'll say this. The 5"38 seemed to have a better and more dependable gun mount system even in the MK28 Mod2 turrets than the 5"54 guns ever had....
Ray Merrill [ATTACH] He lives about an hour away from me. I've talked to him a couple times. Great Guy, lot of valuable memories.
Once at 29 Palms at night we had an illumination round deploy directly over our OP. The sound of "Check your fire." being screamed into radios was...
I had a 155mm HE round land in a draw 200 meters from my OP in 29 Palms and a 105mm MT fuzed round go off 100 meters in front of my OP at Camp...
I was a Naval Gunfire Spotter for most of the time I was in the Marine Corps. I qualed Missouri in the late 80's on her 5" 38 Marine Gun Mount in...
The Marine Corps used 37mm M3A1's to pretty good effect against troops in the PTO. the 37mm was also a capable weapon against massed Banzai...
Nice little site about pre-war Guam. Marine Barracks, Guam--pre-World War Two
He'd appreciate that.
Not scanned, since I don't have an operational scanner.
I had eight uncles that served in WW2 and one aunt (by marriage, she married one of my Uncles) but the one I had the most contact with was my...
Some on-line WW2 Marine Memoirs that might be of interest: Fire Mission 1942 Milt Royko, 1st MarDiv Arty (11th Marines) Fire Mission '42 | A...
[ATTACH] http://www.to-ken.com/articles/Surrenderceremonies.htm
USMC:The Marine Rifle Squad
Thurman's post concerns I-MAC Corps Signal Battalion one of it's subordinate units. I Corps Signal Battalion was a Marine Corps unit and in all...
What is now NAB Little Creek was established in 1946 by combining the separate activities of : Camp Bradford: Seabee and LST Crew training...
For the Marine Corps, TOE F-4 81MM Mortars [IMG] Can be found here:The M1 81mm Mortar Info on Heavy Guns here:Heavy Machine Gun, M2HB...
