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By admin | February 6th, 2011
Marine saluting O'Brien's son after presenting flag. (Photos by Don Knight)
Cyril John O'Brien, 2011 (image courtesy of the Newseum)
Marine Combat Correspondent Cyril John O’Brien was laid to rest on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011, five days following his 92nd birthday.
Many were assembled on a spacious, snow-covered burial ground appropriately named “Gates to Heaven” in Montgomery County, [...]
By admin | January 31st, 2011
Marine Cyril J. O’Brien cheered when he watched the American flag being raised over Japanese soil in 1945. He wasn’t atop Mt. Suribachi but he was close, watching from the invasion beach and coming ashore on Iwo Jima as a combat correspondent with the 3rd Marine [...]
By admin | January 11th, 2011
Color footage from the battle of Iwo Jima. The Battle for Iwo Jima was one of the most famous and fiercest battles fought in the Pacific during World War Two and will forever hold a special place in the history of the United States Marine Corps
Norm Hatch says: Just to be sure all understand. Josephey’s [...]
By admin | November 23rd, 2010
Are you on it?
Step 1: Check for your name. Was it dropped?
Step 2: Did you stop paying your dues?
Step3: Find out who’s in and who’s out, by downloading the PDF (10 pages) of membership directory now. Remember, you must be a paid member and have a special password/invitation code (given to you by Jack Paxton) [...]
By admin | October 24th, 2010
Was your name dropped? Did you stop paying your dues? You an find out who’s in and who’s out, by downloading the PDF of membership directory now. Remember, you must be a paid member and have a special password to access the directory.
If you don’t remember what it is, email Jack Paxton, executive director, at [...]
By admin | July 23rd, 2010
Anyone with any knowledge of a SeaBee-developed “golf course” in the Pacific theatre during World War II or a story written on the course by former CC Sgt. Ralph Peck is requested to contact Mrs. Marty Kaderli, Membership and Memorials, Admiral Nimitz Foundation, 328 E. Main St., Fredericksburg, TX 78624. Tel. (830) 997-8600, Ext. 204 [...]
By admin | July 17th, 2010
Cy O’Brien at last year's conference
He gave a spirited Independence Day speech during a large outdoor celebration on July 5. Seven days later he underwent an arduous, triple bypass surgery at a Montgomery County, Md., hospital. Four days later he was discharged from the hospital to begin several weeks of rehabilitation.
Cy O’Brien, a 91-year-old former [...]
By admin | July 9th, 2010
John Hampton, the retired Marine lieutenant colonel who in the late 1940s used his communications savvy to help launch the Marines’ famous “Toys for Tots” program that is still going strong, died Sunday at Deer Hill Care Home. He was [...]
By admin | July 6th, 2010
Former Marine CC Cy O'Brien is surrounded by his daughters Bridget Turow, Patricia Cahill, and Johnine Meehan following his July
“It’s a daring aspect of this war in Afghanistan ,” said the speaker. “It’s conducted by very small, squad-sized groups of Marines and soldiers and it is called counter insurgency.”
The man at the flag-decked podium, shaded [...]
By admin | June 23rd, 2010
From Jack Paxton: Bob Said has asked if we could put out an inquiry about an underground airplane hangar in Wonsan, Korea.
He needs a photo of the underground hangar at Wonsan in which Bob Hope and his troop entertained 1st MAW people in late Oct 1950 while the First Division waited offshore to “invade” [...]
By admin | May 28th, 2010
Lt. Chew-Een Lee, 1950
Riccoh Player reports he had the honor and pleasure of meeting 85 year old, Major Kurt Chew-Een Lee, and 1st Lt Joe Owen, author of Colder than Hell: A Marine Rifle Company at Chosin Reservoir, (in the background of the photo) at a screening of the documentary, Uncommon Courage: Breakout at Chosin, [...]
By admin | May 20th, 2010
The oldest living Combat Correspondent, Lt.Col John Hampton, Ret. a member of the USMCCCA Joe Rosenthal Chapter, celebrates his 103rd birthday at his assisted care facility in Lafayette, Ca., with fellow Rosenthal Chapter CC’s From left to right , Rick Suarez, Earl Holt, Bill Wasson, LT.Col Hampton, Dale Cook, Norb Malecki and Tom Graves. Also in attendance [...]
By admin | April 12th, 2010
CC member Frank Walker and his wife, Karen, reside in Costa Rica. Periodically he sends updates on their lifestyle to friends. He and Karen have been on several of the CC cruises. In this, he relates the experiences of his Marine dad in World War I.
Frank Walker's father, Anan Walker
My dad, Anan Orville Walker, as a [...]
By admin | April 1st, 2010
(Note: We don’t normally run non-CC related items but this info from Red Carpenter… was too good to pass up.)
DD FORM 214 — SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFIT: Please share this with anyone who had active duty service between January 1957 to December 31, 2001 and planning for retirement. In a nutshell it boils down to this:
You qualify for a [...]
By admin | March 25th, 2010
UPDATE: Norm also appeared as the “Person of the Week” on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer.
During Word War II, Norman Hatch was a combat cameraman who witnessed — and filmed — some of the most bitter fighting in the Pacific theater. His efforts ended with, of all things, an Academy Award — for footage [...]
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