The Letters.
In the previous post, I mentioned a lesson learned in my graduate program: history does not repeat, it echoes, and historians are responsible for those… Read More »The Letters.
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The Legacy of July 5.
As a child, I loved the Fourth of July. It meant loading the blue Plymouth Voyager with beach balls, lawn chairs, sunblock and sand pails, and… Read More »The Legacy of July 5.
Returning.
It has been a long eighteen months, but regular updates will resume soon. Mostly, because I’ve finished this. More to come, as we approach the… Read More »Returning.
Memento
This little painting was saved in a metal box for seventy years. Tucked away with a few old photographs, a few dozen letters, and the… Read More »Memento
Black Sand
Seventy years ago today, a nineteen-year-old ammunition carrier from Sylvania, Ohio, saved a man’s life. He made himself a human shield, protecting his friend as… Read More »Black Sand
Last Muster: Edward Curylo (1923 – 2015)
Ed Curylo smokes a cigarette following the Tinian campaign. Edward Curylo, late of Baker Company and Headquarters Company, 1/24th Marines, passed away in January. A… Read More »Last Muster: Edward Curylo (1923 – 2015)
Taps, 2014
These 1/24 Marines went to their final duty station in 2014.
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| Frank Vargas | Venon Ison | Dale Noyes | Norman Lucas | David Hagerbaumer | J. Murray Fox | Donald Kardok |
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| Carl Weber | William Collis | Alfred Eskildsen | Carroll Stout | Kenneth Whitehurst | George May | Chester Hodge |
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| Andrew Paleveda | Vincent Treccagnoli |
Semper Fi.
“The Company From Brooklyn”
A little-known nickname for Charlie Company, 24th Marines – even if “dem bums” were “a vigorous minority group affecting the character of the entire outfit.”… Read More »“The Company From Brooklyn”
Baker Company Portrait
Photo Source: Martindale Family Tree, uploaded by user “plaxamate1” A neat souvenir photo of four Baker Company Marines, probably taken late in 1943, and a… Read More »Baker Company Portrait
Charles M. Krieve
New photos of a Company A veteran, courtesy of James Krieve. James’ grandfather, PFC Charles Milan Krieve, was born in 1919 and inducted into the Marine… Read More »Charles M. Krieve