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Dad was with the 3rd Marines. He told me that damn Jap Nambu killed more Marines than everything else they had. He carried a BAR for 26 months and said that he wished the BAR had some features like barrel swapping the Nambu had. He said the barrel on his BAR was shot out, but itnever failed.

Thanks to an unknown P 38 pilot on Guam on the summer of 44 my siblings and I are here because that pilot spotted a Zero strafing a Marine patrol caught out in high elephant grass. Dad said they didn't know that P 38 was up there, but he caught that Zero banking for a second pass and brought...

God bless him. Dad was with 3rd MarDiv and went ashore on day 2. In 94 Dad went back to Guam for the 50th anniversary of the Liberation. I wished his brother had still been alive to go with him. He was in the 307th Inf. They met each other there in a tearful reunion. The soldiers and Marines all...

Most folks dont know the famous photo was of the second flag raising. Corpsman John Bradley was in the first flag raising and an unknown Marine named Schultz was in the second. This confusion took years to sort out. I have a picture of my Dad, who was there with the 9th Marines and Charles...

Easy Co. 2nd Battalion 3rd Marine Regiment. Also 9th Marine Regt. Generally abbreviated this way.

Dad was there with E29, a replacement sent in on day 2 from E23 that was in reserve. He was in the AO around Motoyama 2 airfield. They cleared Cushman's Pocket with BARs and flamethrowers. Howlin Mad Smith said they would take Iwo in 10 days. He was off a little. Before it was over Dad...