Peleliu October 26, 1944: The 323rd, arriving from Ulithi, relieves the 321st.
Key West is not centrally located. Why put up a document warehouse on low land in a hurricane belt? You displace too many vacation homes.
Ha! Those are part of my web site! (Posted to be visible.) I have also transcribed a more specific history of Company "H" of the 323rd. From my...
After the battle, my dad took a few pictures of tents, battlefield, and monument.
I can't speak for Marines HQ (God love 'em); but I have a couple of narratives from within an Infantry HQ from 1945 Philippines and Japan.
Sorry, my dad took the picture but never wrote names on those prints. It was possibly years between sending the film home (if mailed) and seeing...
Click on my signature link for lots of gleaned text and photo links, including scanned copies of "The Wildcat" and associated Pic Parades. The...
My dad carried a camera through his time in service. I have posted several photographs from Peleliu, Leyte and Japan online (see signature link)....
Dad's certificate August 22, 1944 - 323rd Inf Crossed Equator southwards at longitude 164 East on USS Barnstable. All were inspected and passed...
[IMG] The Wildcat - August 11, 1945. Links to all available Wildcat News from 1945
Check with his home courthouse. When my dad, a Wildcat, was discharged; he submitted his discharge form to his courthouse for copying. This way...
My dad was with the 81st Wildcats from Alabama to Aomori Prefecture. He was in the 323rd Infantry and took a camera with him. I am still adding...
My dad cried when they told him the Japs had surrendered. But, he was at Leyte doing KP at the time, peeling a load of onions; so maybe that was...
Here are some pix my dad took at Peleliu: [IMG] [IMG]
Here are some news articles published in 1945 in The Wildcat about Japanese cannibalism: Sept 11, 1945 Oct 15, 1945
My father-to-be, as a member of the 81st Infantry Division; was waiting on Leyte in the Philippines. They would have been part of those invading...
Definitely, do not forget. If we do not learn from the past, we are doomed to repeat it. The Japanese were conditioned to obey the Emperor. There...
Thank you.
I could make a stab at identifying this officer, if I was certain of his rank. Photo from late 1945 at (almost certainly) Hachinohe Air Base,...
Do you have some more pictures of your trip? My dad took some photos there...in 1945.
