Col. Benjamin B. Manchester US Marine Corps - MACG - Manila Nov. 8, 1917 - May 24, 2006

Benjamin B. Manchester III's Obituary on Daily Press

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Col. Benjamin B. Manchester III, USMC (ret), 89, Hayes, VA - MarineChat.com

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"Godolphin also helped to direct the largest Marine strike on Luzon, an 81-plane attack east of the Marakina River. In preparation for this, it was decided to send a guerrilla lieutenant--a civil engineer graduate of the University of the Philippines--into the area to be bombed. The officer, disguised as a native civilian, sketched and plotted the Japanese positions by night. After sufficient information had been brought back, Godolphin called in the dive-bombers. He radioed his data to Major Benjamin B. Manchester, the air coordinator, who was circling the target, picking out each point of attack as it was described to him. Then Manchester sent his planes down for the kill."
. . . AND A FEW MARINES: Marines in the Liberation of the Philippines

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Valor awards for Benjamin B. Manchester , III



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