#us marine corps
Text
Corsair F4U de l'US Marine Corps en phase de décollage – Guerre du Pacifique – Atoll de Majuro – Iles Marshall
#WWII#guerre du pacifique#pacific war#corps des Marines#us marine corps#usmc#aviation militaire#military aviation#chasseur#avion de chasse#fighter#chasseur-bombardier#fighter-bomber#chance vought f4u corsair#f4u corsair#corsair#atoll de majuro#majuro#iles marshall#marshall islands
10 notes
·
View notes
Text
Ship life…
#usmc#us marine corps#us marines#u.s. marines#marinecorps#united states marine corps#marine corps#marine life#hothunks#military#militär#militaire#american military#us military#u.s. military#military muscle#militarymencollection#devil dog#devil dogs#military life#military uniform#navy#shiplife
71 notes
·
View notes
Text
Why San Diego, California police can't declare Charles Benfield missing
Charles Alex Benfield, 26, of Gastonia, North Carolina, United States is a U.S. Marine Corps corporal. He is a field artillery cannoneer assigned to Battalion Landing Team 1/5, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit at Camp Pendleton in San Diego County, California, USA.
Benfield went to Frank W. Cox High School in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA and Hunter Huss High School in Gastonia. He is Charles…
View On WordPress
0 notes
Text
M777 Howitzer
4 notes
·
View notes
Text
American Rheinmetall conducts live-fire of Mission Master UGVs for US Marines
Rheinmetall Mission Master SP Unmanned Ground Vehicle: American Rheinmetall Vehicles, in collaboration with Rheinmetall Canada, has successfully conducted a live-fire capability demonstration for the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) at Fort Clinton, Ohio. The demonstration showcased the unique capabilities of the Rheinmetall Mission Master SP autonomous, unmanned ground vehicle (A-UGV) paired with the…
View On WordPress
#American Rheinmetall Vehicle#Live Fire Demonstration#Mission Master Autonomous Ground Vehicle#Rheinmetall Canada#US Marine Corps
0 notes
Text
Ending today with a classic WWII irony:
Wrapping up today with a classic WWII irony fitting to the real war versus the war of memory. Namely that the most genocidal war the US fought in WWII, and the most openly racist, in the Pacific, also included the US's pre-WWII colonial force, the Marine Corps, serving as its most integrated combat force. The Marines spent WWII going from one hellscape to another fighting battles far smaller than the big European battles but just as ferocious on those smaller scales. The result was that for the 'reward' of integration Black Marines fought in some of the most savage and bitter fighting of the entire war, where US Marines were hurled into the teeth of defensive preparations by a Japanese Army that fought some of the most nihilistic battles ever conceived, dying heroically and futilely and in the ways that created the apocalyptic conditions of end-war Japanese realities.
The ironies in all this for these men was no more lost than the equivalent experiences of the 92nd in Italy were on them, and this is another factor in what helped to strengthen the Cold War Civil Rights Movement into what it became.
#lightdancer comments on history#black history month#us history#military history#us marine corps#world war 2#pacific theater of ww2
0 notes
Text
US Marine Corps GUNNERY Sergeant Frank Pater, hugs his son Matthew after returning to Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina
Record Group 233: Records of the U.S. House of RepresentativesSeries: Records of Early House Select CommitteesFile Unit: Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents Which Were Referred to Various Select Committees during the 8th Congress
US Marine Corps (USMC) GUNNERY Sergeant (GYSGT) Frank Pater, Maintenance Marine with Marine All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 224 (VMFA(AW)-224), hugs his son Matthew after returning to Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Beaufort, South Carolina (SC), upon returning from a six month routine deployment to Iwakuni, Japan.
Color photograph of man in military fatigues holding an infant in matching fatigues with a hat.
16 notes
·
View notes
Text
Marines à l'entraînement au débarquement en vue de la bataille de Peleliu – Guerre du Pacifique – Ile Pavuvu – Iles Russell – Iles Salomon – Juillet 1944
#WWII#guerre du pacifique#pacific war#us marine corps#usmc#entraînement#training#ile pavuvu#pavuvu island#iles russell#russell islands#iles salomon#solomon islands#07/1944#1944
9 notes
·
View notes
Text
Marine Life…
#usmc#us marines#u.s. marines#us marine corps#marine corps#united states marine corps#united states marines#marine life#marine#marinecorps#hothunks#military#militär#militaire#american military#us military#u.s. military#militarymencollection#devil dogs#devil dog#leatherneck#military life#military uniform#military tattoos#tattoos
86 notes
·
View notes
Text
TWIH: William Bordelon's Medal of Honor
During this Christmas week in 1920, a hero is born in San Antonio, Texas. William “Bill” Bordelon would go on to fight in one of World War II’s most savage Pacific battles, receiving the Medal of Honor for his bravery.
Indeed, his actions proved vital to the Marines’ success in that fierce conflict.
Bordelon had been among those who volunteered to serve after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. His Christmas birthday was mere days away, and his family wanted him to wait until after his birthday to enlist.
He refused. “He told them he had a job to do,” his sister Peggy said, according to Bordelon’s biographer, Douglas Pricer. “He was angry. He wanted to fight. He wanted to join the Marines. Mom and Dad signed the papers so he could go.”
The story continues here: https://www.taraross.com/post/tdih-william-bordelon-moh
#this week in history#christmas#medal of honor#us marine corps#us marines#world war ii#sharethehistory
19 notes
·
View notes
Text
Sergio Delgado biography: 10 things about Baldwin Park, California man
Sergio Pimentel Delgado is an American man from California, United States. Here are 10 more things about him:
He is a resident of Baldwin Park, California.
He is neither a student nor an alumnus of the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, USA.
He is 1 year younger than Hayden Drew Pritchard of Chula Vista, California.
In January 2022, he and Pritchard enlisted into the U.S.…
View On WordPress
0 notes
Text
The list of US K.I.A.'s from Operation Just Cause December 20, 1989 – January 31, 1990.
Army
Name Home of Record
SSG Larry Barnard Hallstead, PA
PFC Roy D. Brown Jr. Buena Park, CA
PVT Vance T. Coats Great Falls, MT
SPC Jerry S. Daves North Carolina
SGT Michael A. Deblois Dubach, LA
PFC Martin D. Denson Abilene, TX
PFC William D. Gibbs Marina, CA.
SPC Phillip S. Lear Westminster, SC
SPC Alejandro Manriquelozano* Lauderhill, FL
PFC James W. Markwell Cincinnati, Ohio
CPL Ivan M. Perez Pawtucket, R.I
PFC John M. Price Conover, WI
PFC Scott L. Roth Killeen, TX
PVT Kenneth D. Scott Princeton, WV
1LT John R. Hunter Victor, MT
CW2 Wilson B. Owens Myrtle Beach, SC
CW2 Andrew P. Porter Saint Clair, MI
PVT James A. Taber Jr. Montrose, CO
Navy
LT(JG) John Connors Arlington, MA
BM1 Chris Tilghman Kailua, HA
ENC Donald McFaul Deschutes, OR
TM2 Issac G. Rodriguez III Missouri City, TX
Marine Corps
Name Home of Record
Cpl. Garreth C. Isaak Greenville, SC
* denotes service member is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
6 notes
·
View notes
Text
0 notes
Text
Now that I'm done with this one, Ada Ferrer's history of Cuba is next:
Wrapped up the first in the set of many books I have accumulated, recently, and have not read. This one was originally on my wish list for this year but I got it for free when the local library palmed off its own books. It's a biography of one of those figures who rightfully would intimidate historians, a legend of an armed force who happens to embody much of that particular organization's self-perception....written by a Marine.
With that kind of foreboding obstacle it's actually a fairly balanced history, if sympathetic, and spares no words on the consequences of Puller's actions while noting the man never had the highest echelon of command and as such fell afoul of the errors and misjudgments of his superiors and was wrongly blamed for things that he did not do.
Equally it also notes that General Puller served in the sides of the Marine Corps and its history that tend to rightly be downplayed for equally rightly being seen as unsavory, namely the Banana Wars that led General Butler to do his 'war is a racket' speech. He was avid for combat, heedless of the costs of that avidness, ultimately incapable of the aspects of command that require more than charging at the enemy balls first, while never getting the training and until his very last years as a Marine any of the responsibility for it. As such the degree to which he can be held accountable for things he repeatedly asked for, was repeatedly denied, and developed a jaundiced view of precisely from that repeated denial out of sour grapes is actually a very valid question that should be answered.
None of this alters that at Pelileu his command of his battalion led to one of the bloodiest small-scale trainwrecks of a bloody war, or that there were prices that one pays for having the officers who like to get it bloody and fight with the enemy, prices that can equally be weighed in the balance scale against his superiors in the Second World War and the Korean War who embodied the other side of generalship and often with rather unfortunate results.
The ultimate view here hinges on the degree to which one likes Marines and to which one can forgive Puller for the role he played in some of the more unsavory actions of the armed forces with no regrets on this. Of course a cynic will note that so many of the people who would rightly balk at Puller's decisions turn blind eyes to murderers like Qassim Soleimaini and Marshal Zhukov's presiding over a massive pillaging and rape spree and Marshal Guderian's savage war of barbarism on the other side of that war, depending.
And for more relevance to contemporary events, Hamas openly saying "We want all the Jews dead" gets plenty of 'naw they don't really mean it' apologia from the people who would consider General Puller anathema but if their favorite fanatics want to call for an utter annihilation of a people, that's just a bit detail and entirely worthy of forgiveness. So as I said, it hinges on where one draws those lines. I ultimately mostly found it interesting for shining that very direct spotlight on what the US actually did in Haiti and Nicaragua, why it did it, and the limits and measures of US military power in resolving complicated political situations and why that had some relative success in this hemisphere versus utter failure in the Muslim world.
8/10.
#lightdancer comments on history#book reviews#biographies#us marine corps#banana wars#world war ii#korean war
2 notes
·
View notes
Last Seen Blogs
