PFC MARVIN H. JOLLIFF MACHINE-GUNNER BOULDER CITY, KOREA

Comments: Just looking for someone who may have information about Marvin's last night, before he was KIA two days before the cease-fire on Hill 119, during the battle of Boulder City. Of course, it would be even better if someone who knew him would contact me. I know that Marvin was wounded while his machine-gun position on the forward slope was over-run. I suppose the most pressing thing I would like to know is how long did he live, after being wounded?

I am Marvin's kid brother.

Keywords: Boulder City, Lt.Swigart, Hill #119, G Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division

Looking for Marines who Served in 1951

Comments: I am looking for Marines who served with 1 Mar Div in September 1951 and fought near the Punchbowl and Soyang River. I am a former Marine who is writing a history of that battle as my Thesis for a Master's degree from the University of North Texas and could use help in the form of interviews or memoirs from veterans who were there. Thanks and Semper Fi

Keywords: Punchbowl, Hill 749, Hill 812, Hill 702, Hill 751, Hill 673, Hill 1052, Hill 980, Hill 854, Hill 602, Hill 680, Yoke Ridge, Kanmubong Ridge, Hill 924, Soyang River, September 1951.

SGT. THEODORE PAUL LANDRY JR BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS

Comments: Hello, looking for any info on grandfather SGT. THEODORE PAUL LANDRY JR, MARINES, Company I, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, Boston Massachusetts. Any info on him would mean the world to me. Thank you,

Peter

Keywords: SGT. THEODORE PAUL LANDRY JR, MARINES, Company I, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, Boston Massachusetts

God Bless...

Comments: I am the grand-daughter of Mr. Ronnie Lupe, who is the esteemed leader of our great White Mountain Apache Nation. I am the only daughter of his first born Son, and I am proud of my grandfather for representing our Nation in the conflict of Korea.

Keywords: Mr. Ronnie Lupe 1st Marine Division, 3rd Battalion, 1st Regiment Former Marine Machine-gunner in Korean Conflict

G co. 3rd Bn 1st Marines 60 mortars

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Keywords: looking for anyone that remembers serving with in Korea

James Samuel Cook (Lieutenant)

Comments: Dad is doing great, enjoying retirement on Cape Cod. We visited over Memorial Day weekend and he read aloud some of the letters he sent to his mother while in Korea. Ths stirred my interest. God Bless all the vets!

Keywords: platoon leader, H company, supply officer, in Korea jan-nov 51

George company 3rd Bn

Comments: Looking for familiar names and faces of men that served with me

Keywords: Okie,Knockdown,Hick....these were some of the nick names that I was known as...Served 1951-1952

Men who knew PFC Allan J Bouquin I Co KIA

Comments: Hi, my name is john bouquin. My uncle who i never got to meet is PFC ALLAN JOHN BOUQUIN

Hostile, Died (KIA)

August 13, 1952

FREDONIA NY

Serial Number 1216795

I was wondering if there was anybody that served with him that may be able to speak about him. its a long shot but i thought i would try thankyou.

Keywords: PFC ALLAN JOHN BOUQUIN

Hostile, Died (KIA)

August 13, 1952

FREDONIA NY

Serial Number 1216795

Close calls in combat

Comments: CLOSE CALLS IN COMBAT-Former Marine and author is looking for stories about unusual/very unique close call/near death experiences of Marines and Corpsmen during any of our nation's wars, for possible inclusion in a future book. To submit your story or to request additional info/criteria, please contact: Bob Simonsen. 3920 Ramona Dr Riverside, CA 92506 or Three27bob@aol.com or 951 788-8183

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fallen veteran

Comments: My father Edward T. Costello was in The Marine Corp during the Korean War. He was proud to serve with Item Company 3rd battalion 1st Marine Division, something he always proud of up until his death, he has passed away on February 15, 2006 of Cancer. We ran into several gentlemen during the Korean War memorial dedication in D.C. A few years back, he was at his happiest moments telling stories about The Hook and Boulder city and seeing some old faces.Edwards funeral will be at ARLIGNTON Cemetery in May of this year P.F.C. Edward T. Costello Edward Thomas Costello, age 73 died Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2006 at his sons house in Sunrise Florida of Cancer. Ed was born in the Bronx New York; a college graduate, a family man and always called pops by all of the kids on the neighborhood, since he was involved in The Police athletic leagues with his two sons. He moved to Florida in 1972 as a chef to work for Jackie Gleason at his country club, along with many other hotels during his career; Ed was a chef for 30 years. He was a Proud U.S. Marine Veteran of the Korean War a member of the Marine Corp Association- he proudly served with Item Company 3rd battalion 1ST Marine Division from 1952-1955 and then the reserves from 1955-1960. He was a 2 time Purple Heart recipient along with other letter of recommendation in his file. He will be laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. Survived by his two sons Thomas and his wife Cynthia and their two daughters Nicole and Sarah. His son Anthony and his wife Sonya and their two children Amber and Bryce.

Keywords: His nick name was stinky, he saw action at the hook, boulder city and other engagments. He was always proud to be a marine and to serve with Item co. 3rd bat 1st Marine division during the Korean war. This is something he said even on his last days, he would go and be with his old buddies.

WPNS.CO 3BAT 5REG 1DIV 1953-54

Comments: any one who was there when its was over mpm

Keywords: nevda citys

Comments: Looking for any member of 3rd Battalion 1st Marine Regiment Weapons company or Howe company during Korean War

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William B. Baugh Burial Place

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Keywords: INFORMATION ON BURIAL PLACE OF WILLIAM B. BAUGH MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT KOREAN WAR HE IS BURIED IN GLEN HAVEN CEMETERY HARRISON OHIO SAW A REQUEST FROM A MAN WHO WANTED TO KNOW WHERE HIS UNCLE WAS BURIED FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL OR TELEPHONE ME IF YOU CARE TO I LIVE RIGHT IN HARRISON

Olen Franklin Myers Item Co /3/1 - KIA 10/27/52

Comments: I knew Olen Myers from Camp Pendleton, Ca. onto Korea 1952. He was with the ist MarReg,!st Marine Div.. We became great friends when we were taking Inf training at Camp Pendleton, Ca. and also at Pickle Meadows, Nev taking cold weather training. We were snowed in there as we were about to leave and was stranded for several days. When we finally got back to Camp Pendleton we sailed to Korea on the Gen. William S. Weigel stopped off in Japan to leave gear and then onto Inshon korea where we were assigned to various Marine Org. Olen was assigned to different organizations but we saw each other several times. In fact he and I at supper together at 1st Mar Div Hdq. the night,ethier the day or next day before he was KIA. He was a great musician and they put on several shows for the Marines that year. i HAVE TRIED FOR SEVERAL YEARS TO FIND SOME INFORMATION ABOUT HIM. i WAS CHECKING ON MY COMPUTER TONIGHT (!/30/05) AND FOUND THIS ON THE WEB SITE kOREAN wAR PROJECT i SURE WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM SOME OF HIS RELATIVES OR FRIENDS.

Keywords: Olen Franklin Myers

LOOKING FOR TMOTHY BRITTON

Comments: I just want to know if he is okay. I heard about hurricane Opehlia and wondering is he safe. He left for boot camp on July 24,2005 and I haven't heard anything from him. If you have any information about him please contact me at Neicyco06@hotmail.com. Thank you

Keywords: RCT Britton,Timothy Plt 3089 Bn.Ico Box 13089 Parris Island, South Carolina 29905-3089

Looking For Dad

Comments: I am seeking information from anyone who served with him or has any knowledge of him. His hometown was Charleston, Indiana. He lived, briefly in Neptune, New Jersey where there was his obituary appeared in the Asbury Park Press.

Any help that can be had will, greatly, be appreciated. this has been a very long journey.

Thankyou

Keywords: John A. Doyle 25 March 1931 - 5 April 1953 USMC 108775 Company I, 3rd Battalion, 1st marines, 1st Marine Division

Looking For my Dad's Marine buddy

Comments: Hi. I am looking for my dad's old war buddy. My dad is former (gunny sgt. Calliston Hutto). My dad;s friends name is Willie T. Johnson They fought together on Hill 31.

Keywords: HILL 31

Item Copmpany 3/1 Reunion

Comments: Item Company 3/1 Seeking Marines For Reunion

Our purpose is to unite the surviving veterans of Item Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Regiment. First Marine Division, who fought in the Korean War during the period of September or 1950 to July 1953, and to honor their valor, sacrifice and duty.

We honor the memory of those men who had given their lives defending the freedom of the people of the Republic of Korea.

Once a year we assemble and to bring together those surviving veterans for a few days of story swapping, lying and generally remembering.

Our next reunion will be in May of 2006 at Branson, MO.

Contact: Victor (Doc) Shepherd, our web site is www.ItemCompany31.com

Keywords: reunion, Inchon, Seoul, Chosin, Killer, Ripper, Bunker Hill, Boulder City, Vegas, Punchbowl

boot camp april 1953 Sandiego members

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Keywords: I went thru Boot Camp in April 1953 but given a medical due to an injury during boot. I believ i was in the 1st marines Charlie company. Would love to hear from anyone on this term Our D.I. Was sgt Gilliand

Clobber Gulch

Comments: see above comment please

Keywords: does anyone know of: the korean war battle in the gulch between Hongchon and Chunchon called "clobber Gulch"?...there have been stories and a movie made about it, I believe...magazine that story was carried in was called: "Men" and issue was May of 1952..anyone have an issue to sell?..also, is there anyone out there that was part of the 50,000 U.S. Marines that were sent to Klamath Falls, Oregon in WWII with malaria, for treatment, etc. and when the snow came it saved their lives by putting the disease into remission?...pfrey101@hotmail.com

looking for old buddies,

Comments: I wonder if anyone out there remembers my husband Johnie Bryan. He served in the Marines from April 1952 to Sep 56. He took basic at Camp Pendleton, then to Georgia, Hawaii and was stationed in tent camp 3 at the foot of MT Fuji in Japan. I don't know where he was in Korea exactly, He said he was with the 3rd btn, 3rd Marine, 3rd Division attached to the 1st Division in Korea. He had bright red wavy hair, and was a farm boy from Missouri. We have located one friend Jim Baxley from Ark, another is Joe Herbst (not sure of the spelling) who was a motorcycle policeman in St. Louis after the war. Johnie does a lot of reminiscing and would love to meet up with some old pals. Please help me find his old buddies. Thanks

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Chosin - Battle

Comments: At Chosin, got shrapnel in the ankles and almost lost feet to frost bite. Woke up on hospital ship "Repose" but don't know how I got there. Can anyone help? No records were found of the incident. Might someone remember me?

Keywords: SSGT Bill Kirchhoff was in five of the six major battles in Korea.

The Marines Administer Good Medicine

Comments: The Marines Administer Good Medicine

In December, 1947 I was standing at attention as best I could in a newly formed recruit platoon at MCRD San Diego. The Drill Instructor was SSgt Douglas D. Gardner, fully caporizoned with 2 hash marks and the recognition and awards associated with combat in the South Pacific. The several history books I have since read all tell me "he entered into captivity" on Wake Island on 23 December, 1941 and spent the next 44 months as a POW of the Japanese. SSgt Gardner had in abundance what I later learned to be called "command lpresence". In any circumstance, social, civil or brutal, you appreciated being on his side. I didn't have much going for me and worse, didn't even realize my several limitations. Sgt Gardner said "Hall, you are uneducated, undisciplined and unmotivated and we have a place for guys like you". This for me was my first dose of Marine Corps medicine and in time I came to understand, appreciate and recommend it. For the next 5 years my place was to pick up trash and march with an M-1 rifle, the best medicine anyone ever took. Tlhe Marine Corps demands that all Marines learn to fire a rifle. At that time it was the US Rifle cal. 30 M-1. In boot camp I sincerely wanted to qualify as an Expert Rifleman but the best I could come up with was Marksman, that is barely qualified. Once a year we all had to requalify with our rifles, "snapping in" for 8 hours each day for 2 weeks. This was all prior to being allowed to fire a single round on the range. The second year I managed to make Sharpshooter, still being unable to qualify as Expert. During the summer of 1950, my 3rd year in the Corps it came to once again requalify. After completing the 2 weeks of snapping in we went back to the range to fire for record. As we started off with slow fire prone position on the 500 yard line Gunny (Tech Sgt) Roy Kastner was running the range and watching the butts with his binoculars. Gunny Kastner was cut out of the same good cloth as was SSgt Gardner, that is he also had all the attributes expected of the best of the Marines. I remember he also the grandest handlebar mustache possible, about 8 inches wide. Gunny joined the Marines about 1938 and served in the South Pacific.

After finishing on the 500 and 300 yard lines and preparing to fire the last rounds of rapid fire prone I had been mentally keeping score and I knew that if I got 'em all in the black I had become an Expert Rifleman, which was an automnatic $5 a month raise in pay. After the final firing I felt pretty good as the targets were lowered in the butts for marking. When the targets were raised for scoring, I had indeed put them all in the black. Gunny Kastner, standing alongside me said "Nice shooting Hall". I have never forgotten the "attaboy", the only one I received in 5 years in the Marines. Thanks Gunny, the Marines are not known for effusive outpourings. Another dollop of the good medicine.

Just a few days later we were on our way to Korea, where I was given the good job as ammo carrier in W-3-1, 1st Mar. Div. The 1st Marines were commanded by Chesty Puller, the 5th Marines by Raymond Murray and Col. Homer Litzenberger had the 7th Marines.

LTGEN Raymond Murray passed away on Veterans Day, 11 November, of this year 2004. In his obituary it was said he wanted to be a teacher, having graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in English. He was one of the very best. I was privileged to be among those in the Hagaru perimeter during the 1st week of Dec., 1950 when Col. Murray led his 5th Marines into our lines, marching in step, in formation, in 40 below zero weather, in the middle of the night.

After Korea, I went to the 6th Marines of the 2nd Marine Division and finished out my time. In the 6th Marines there was a Navy Full LT Chaplain, whose name I regret to say has become lost. I remember this good officer because at every service he concluded with prophetic, memorable quote from the work of Alexis de Tocqueville in the 1830's: "America is great because America is good and should America ever cease to be good America will cease to be great". I am aware that many scholars have denied he wrote this. I have read several of the editions, versions and translations of the original French "Democracy in America" and that conclusion is to be found in the original unabridged edition of the Author.

Epilog.

Sometime in 1958 while attending the University of Texas I began experiencing troubling headaches while studying. I had an eye examination and learned I had astigmatism and other eye weaknesses. When I put on my first pair of glasses at age 27 I was astounded. I then understood why I could not hit a baseball and why I had such trouble in target shooting. I had been swinging the bat and pointing a rifle where the ball and target was not. So the intensive training on the rifle ranges, the snapping in and zeroing of the weapon resulted in compensating for unknown and unrecognized eye defects, just as discipline corrects and compensates for other human traits and failings. An integral part of discipline in any circumstance is to always look around and be aware of what's going on in your area. In simplest and crudest terms, never leave your rear end sticking out.

It is my belief that the good medicine of the Marine Corps has derived from the origins of our Country in 1620 by the declarations written in the Mayflower Compact by those 40 odd Pilgrim Fathers, before they stepped off the boat, wherein they declared America would be founded as a Christian Nation.

The Marine Corps medicine consists of wisdom, discipline and intense training. I recommend it.

I am thankful for my Marine Corps experiences. It was time well spent.

Gary Hall 633178

23 December, 2004

In remembrance of the Wake Island Marines, December, 1941

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marines from pueblo,colorado

Comments: Looking for any one who served with my father Melvin Postlewait during the Korean war in 1951-1953 to tell me stories and memories of him. He is still alive and I am trying to find out about him, I am doing a memoral wall in his house.

Keywords: Melvin Postlewait and those that served from Pueblo Colorado with him

Remembering Chesty Puller

Comments: After having lived long enough to wake up, I'm thankful I knew you, Col (Gen) Puller. Of the many honors and benefits of having served in the Marine Corps was, as I prefer to phrase it "having worked for" then Col. Chesty Puller in W-3-1 from August, 1950 to Sept., 1951, in Korea. Regretfully only years later did I begin to fully realize what a great leader of men he was. He was not one of the "perfumed princes" operating remotely from the rear as described by David Hackworth in his books. However I have evidence here to tell you he must have been one of those leaders Col. T. R. Fehrenback describes in his book "This Kind of War", one who "had the courage to make the hard decisions to make the troops always do the difficult yet correct thing". The long list of 5 Navy Crosses awarded Col. Puller should have been at least6 awards from considering the following example I witnessed during Sept., 1950. The time frame was during the 1st Marine Regiment advance from Inchon and prior to taking Seoul (1st time), in 1950. When I say I worked for Col. Puller, I was an ammunition carrier in W-3-1 (a pack mule actually), and now a days am thankful for the experience. Any way we moved out early one Sept. morning advancing toward Seoul and began to take some small arms fire. Instantly the whole front line took cover, we were in a potato field at the time and a road was about 10 yards to my left, with a line of vehicles and a tank at the front of the column. Everything stopped, including the tank, engines idling. I was safely prone behind some cover in the potato field, feeling secure as I watched the rounds spatter off the road and sides of the tank when I noticed an individual walking forward at a brisk 120, wondering who the poor soul was, a new replacement, some 2nd Lt, or who, steadily coming forward from about 500 yards to the rear. As he got closer I suddenly noted sunlight reflecting off his insignia. As he kept coming forward, rounds were spattering off the road and vehicles and he appeared not to notice, looking grimly straight ahead. As he passed directly by me about 10 yards away, I saw he was a full Colonel, Col. L. B. Puller, his self. He stopped at the rear of the tank, which had a telephone mounted above the right track, and jerked up the phone. I couldn't hear what he said but I remember instantly the tank belched out black exhaust smoke and dug out forward. And likewise, we all, (the 1st Mar Reg't) were moving forward. Yes, I'm indeed thankful I knew you, Col. Puller.

Gary Hall July 2004

Keywords: Chesty Puller, move out.