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- D.L. Hampton World War II Dog Tags
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I have been reading the letters from other Marines that have attached WWII dog tags. Just thought that I would send my dad's. I carry his along with mine on my key chain. He wore these in WWII and Korea. I lost my dad back in 2003, and know that there are fewer and fewer of the WWII Marines around, but I would like to hear from anyone that may have known my Dad. My Dad, Don L. Hampton, was from Sweetwater, Texas. Semper Fi Rannie P. Hampton Sgt 1969 …
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Sgt.Grit this is the best I could do on a picture of the dog tags if you zoom in they look pretty clear. WILDER. D.L. 955090 P TYPE-O T.7/44 USMCR Mario Muniz Sr.
- World War II Dog Tags
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Sgt Grit, Enjoy your E-mails & your store. Reading this week's E-mails in regards to Mike Shaw's letter about SgtMaj Linehan. Never knew the man personally but I do know his widow quite well. She's a member of our Detachment for which the Detachment is named. I'm a 4th. term Commandant for the SgtMaj Linehan Detachment #1034 here in Lewiston, Idaho. His wife is a Marine also, that's how they met. One other item I would like to pass on is a picture of a friends dog-tags from WW II. …
Read More - Old Sailor
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This is a pic of myself and Lorton Berry. Lorton lives in Lutts, TN. He is 88 10-13. Met him last New Year's. He was in the Navy, WWII. Attached to 1st MarDiv, and maybe other units. Communications. From Guadalcanal to Okinawa. He told me stories about Guadalcanal,, Tinian and Peleliu. When I first met him, I told him that his generation, were heroes to Marines of my generation. He looked me in the eye and said "the heroes are still there." His daughter said, she had …
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- Went fishing with my wife to June Lake CA, second day there we were parking wife had to "go" then on her way back she says to me hey the old guy over there is a Marine! Like I wouldn't have noticed, anyway I caught up with him at the loading ramp said out loud HEY MARINE at which point he straightend up turn to look at me, we shook hands and I found out he had been on most of the island hopping campaigns, said he wasn't on Iwo …
Read More - Henry and the 4th, Saipan
- My Grandfather has been a hero of mine for a long time, even though he died in 1992 when I was only six. Henry Ambrose Snell Jr. was born in Bethel Maine in 1919. He grew up on an apple farm before graduating from the University of Maine where, at almost six feet tall, he played on the basketball team. When America joined WWII Henry enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. Because he had a college degree he has sent to OCS; my Grandma, who is still alive, told …
Read More - Iwo Flag in Sparks, Nevada
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I'm at the TA truck stop in Sparks, Nevada, formerly Sierra Sids. This flag has been on display here for many years. It no longer has the card explaining that it was taken off the body of a dead Marine on Iwo Jima. You may be able to see the stains on the flag, actually blood from the fallen Marine.
- WWII Posters
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I found these on the internet and thought you might want to post them in the weekly letter. I have never seen these three WWII posters and found them unusual. M. N. Verhagen, USMC, Cpl. 1966 - 1970
- Bataan-Corregidor
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Dear Friends, Amazing news about my father, Casey Bazewick, Sr.! Today I learned that the Bataan-Corregidor Memorial Foundation of New Mexico has found, in an archive, a film of the liberation of his prisoner-of-war camp in Mukden, Manchuria, taken shortly after Japan's surrender in August 1945. OSS paratroopers had just liberated the camp. I had no idea this film existed. "Hoten POW Camp Liberated" is now on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytYOOjwzoAw At 0:35 in the film, you can see Hoten POW camp where he had been a …
Read More - Daddy’s Girl
- My dad died in 2000. This Saturday would have been his 87th birthday. He was my best friend growing up and I was his little girl. He served in WWII with the 2nd Division, 2nd bat. 8th Marines. He was a flamethrower in the Pacific. He was at Tarawa, Guam, Saipan, and Tinian. He also helped "mop up" on Okinawa. He served in China 1947 - 1949 and was at the Chosin with Chesty Puller in Korea. His DD214 reads like a combat history of the Marine Corps. His last …
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