• PRE-BOOT CAMP -- All about my life prior to joining the Marines -- that time between high school graduation and my ultimate journey from Mount Joy, Texas, to the Marine Corps boot camp in San Diego, California.

• BOOT CAMP -- Stories about my life in boot camp and training at Camp Pendleton before I shipped overseas and into the thick of it.

• THE FOURTH MARINE DIVISION -- All about the formation of the Fourth Marine Division, my assignment to it, and our combat training at Camp Pendleton.

• WAR STORIES -- My personal experiences during WW2.
  • THE MARSHALL ISLANDS
    
  • SAIPAN
    
  • BATTLE POSTSCRIPTS TO THE MARSHALL ISLANDS CAMPAIGN
    
    • SAIPAN - DAY ONE
      
    • SAIPAN - A LONG HARD BATTLE
      
    • SAIPAN - NEARING THE END
      
    • SAIPAN - HEROES
      
  • TINIAN
    
  • STATESIDE
    
  • NAGASAKI
    
  • SASEBO

CIVILIAN LIFE

MY FAMILY AFTER WW2--Some major events of our family life after the war mor or less by each decade

PEARL HARBOR -- My impressions of that "day in infamy".

IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL -- If you wish to add a name here, please email it to me!

MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS -- Learn about some of America's true heroes. If you wish to add a name here, please email it to me!

KOREAN WAR MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS -- Learn about more of America's true heroes. If you wish to add a name here, please email it to me!

THE NAVAJO CODE TALKERS -- True American Heroes

INTERESTING AND OUTRAGEOUS ARTICLES IN THE NEWS -- Articles you don't find every day. Some thought provoking comments you may or may not agree with but hopefully they will provoke you to think.

WHY TRUMAN DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB ON HIROSHIMA It seems the revisionists are still attempting to make the United States the villian for ending the war with the atomic bomb. Everyone should read this article by Mr. Bruce Lee and mayube the light will go on.

DOCUMENT OF AN ATROCITY--A story by Don Schloat who served as an Army Medic at Bataan and was a POW of the Japanese. This story should be read by all Americans, especially the youth of today. His paintings which are his mental images of the dozens of Prisoners he saw massacred, have been on display at the Veterans Memorial Building, Balboa Park, San Diego Calif.

JOSEPH STALIN--The World's greatest tyrant and killer of millions of his own people. Read about how the New York Times covered up much of what he did in the 1939's. Has anything really changed at the Times?

JAPAN'S SECRET LABORATORY OF DEATH - UNIT 731 -- Many would not believe me when I spoke of this atrocity. Finally, the story, and the truth, has come out on The Discovery and History Channels.

BIRTH OF LIBERTY -- Here you can read the Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Rights, the Articles of Confederation, the Declaration of Independence and the U. S. Constitution. These are documents we should all be familiar with.

MEMORIAL DAY -- Let us never forget-May we always remember.

HARLEM'S HELL FIGHTERES ---Ridiculed as "tin soldiers" and treated as orphans, the U. S. 369th Infantry won fame and glory fighting with the French on thre Western Front during World Way 1.

FLAG DAY----The flag is only a symbol..but what a symbol it is and let us never forget the real meaning of that flag...the Stars and Stripes. May it wave in freedom forever.

VETERAN'S DAY -- What and Who is a Veteran?

POINTS TO PONDER -- Some thought provoking comments by some of our great thinkers, as well as some of our not so great thinkers.

JAPAN TODAY -- Have They Really Changed?

IWO JIMA POEM--By TSgt. M. K. Nowell

WORLD WAR II STORIES -- PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SUBMIT YOUR STORY/IES!!

• A BROTHER REMEMBERS -- Memorial by Archie Woodard (about one of my Marine buddies, Fred Woodard).
  • OLD GLORY -- by Bev Woodard Strong, in memory of her brother, Fred Woodard

• AMPHIBIOUS SHIPS WITH NO NAMES---By Vaughn E. Hampton, U. S. Navy--WWII

• LANDING AT YOKOSUKA -- By Charles M. Paty Jr., US Navy, RM 2nd Class, USS North Carolina [BB55]

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• FILLING IN A PAGE OF HISTORY -- by Dianne Hales
  In many histories of World War II, the fight for Palau---among the bloodiest campaigns on the Pacific front---is overlooked. Thousands of Americans and tens of thousands of Japanese died in fierce combat on land and over water in three major military operations in 1944 and 1945. This is one aspect of those battles and is the story of how one man is trying to make a difference.

• RANDOM RECOLLECTIONS --By Roy E. Amburgey, U. S. Navy--WWII

• W.C. REEVES REMEMBERS IWO -- from a newspaper article by Jim Kyle (about one of my best Marine buddies)

• PFC H. C. STROUD -- PFC Stroud died on February 19, 1945, in action against the Japanese on the Island of Iwo Jima. His niece is extremely anxious to learn more about her uncle. Please check this link and if you knew him or served with him, please contact her at MsBeHaven@iname.com.