Last Muster: Ernest Dondis (1924 – 2021)
The ranks of First Battalion veterans grows thinner once again. Just today – what would have been his 97th birthday – we learned of the… Read More »Last Muster: Ernest Dondis (1924 – 2021)
“What the devil do they have that thing flying for?”
The First Battalion, 24th Marines reacts to the flag raising on Mount Suribachi.
Victory
“Today is the day I guess we’ll always remember.” Corporal Bill Logan’s ruminations on the end of the war.
Past And Future
“Marines cleaning their .30 caliber water-cooled machine gun while in reserve [for the] first time since D-Day. Iwo Jima 26 February 1945.” USMC photo by… Read More »Past And Future
John H. Klanke, 1924 – 2019
The ranks of our WWII veterans grow thinner by the day, and I’m saddened to report that another 1/24 Marine has gone on to the… Read More »John H. Klanke, 1924 – 2019
Birthday Update
Yesterday was the 244th birthday of the United States Marine Corps and today, of course, is Veteran’s Day. I was looking for an appropriate photo… Read More »Birthday Update
A Car for James
James Miller, a combat-wounded veteran of C/1/24, gets a special privilege from the city of Oakland.
“I never had any idea that it would get home.”
“I just bent down low to take a drink and my picture was taken.”
PFC T. Ellis Underwood on the photos that would have made him famous.
Lost On Patrol: TSgt. Arnold Ross Richardson
Ross Arnold Richardson was born in Salem, Massachusetts on the tenth day of July, 1919. He grew up in Essex County (with his parents, Ross… Read More »Lost On Patrol: TSgt. Arnold Ross Richardson
Lost On Patrol: PFC Lawrence Elmer Knight
Lawrence Elmer Knight was born in the small city of Parkin, Arkansas on 19 April 1923. He spent most of his childhood in the communities of Parkin, where he attended school, and Tyronza, where his father Elmer farmed cotton,