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We're proud to support USMCCCA Lifetime Member Amy Forsythe as she just published her book "Heroes Live Here"! Click this link and grab your copy today! If you'd like to purchase a signed hardcover, order here . 'Heroes Live Here: A Tribute to Camp Pendleton Marines Since 9/11' is filled with more than 150 full-color photos of memorials and markers placed aboard Camp Pendleton with a detailed map showing the location of several important monuments. It is written by Amy For

REVIEW: My Brother's Letters Amazon Paperback:  $$11.59, Kindle:  $5.95 One of the interesting things about this Association is the historical data that turns up from unexpected sources.  Take "My Brother's Letters," a self-published paperback (and ebook) written by James Watson and chronicling the action of his Marine cinematographer brother during World War II. Somewhat like Linda Keaton-Lima's "War Is Not Just For Heroes," the dispatches recorded by her dad, CC Red Can

Joe Rosenthal Chapter member, Tom Graves talks about his interviews of Nisei Veterans, their battles against wartime suspicion and racism, and overcoming them with their courage and patriotism. Tuesday  •  June 11, 2013  •  6:00 pm Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel, 609 Sutter Street, San Francisco Registration at 5:30 pm | Program at 6:00 pm TWICE HEROES: America’s Nisei Veterans of WWII and Korea , tells the story of true American heroes, up to now, a piece of history know

Remember last years' speaker, our own CC Rod Deutschmann and his wife, Robin ? They have finished a wonderful new eBook about using your digital camera on manual: The IFLC's Complete Guide to the art of Going Manual. Forty Lessons and more than 60 in-the-field exercises to keep your practice sessions In Focus. Grab your copy at this reduced rate of $20, before it's too late and .... please send a link to your friends or family, this discount is good for anyone. Let's sprea

P.T. Brent authored a new book, 29: an Anthology of Outrageous Stories. Description on Amazon.com: U.S. Marines by their very culture are strong, bold, disciplined . . . and ultimately victorious. The Irish know how to make something from nothing . . . and still find cheeky humor in a “hard knock” life. Catholics care deeply about their God, their country and their fellow man. Marine Irish-Catholic P.T. Brent has lived an extraordinary life and his “finish line” is still

Honorary Life Member and 1982 Denig Award winner Marvin J. Wolf has a new book out--and one of his earlier works, considered a classic of its genre, is back in print. The Tattooed Rabbi is a mystery thriller set in Southern California. The protagonist is a rabbi working as a private investigator.  This is character is based, in part, on a remarkable chaplain that the author met while on active duty. Fallen Angels, Chronicles of L.A. Crime & Mystery is a historical antholo

If you have not yet read "War Is Not Just For Heroes," the World War II dispatches and letters of the late CC Red Canup , this is your chance to purchase it at the low post-conference rate of $20, which includes postage. The book, edited by Red's daughter, Dr. Linda Keaton-Lima , contains some of the best reporting of Marines conducting air ops to come out of World War II. CCHQ has a limited number of these books available. Contact CCHQ at usmccca@cfl.rr.com or call 352 7

World War II Dispatches and Letters of U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondent Claude R. “Red” Canup Review by Capt Jack T. Paxton, USMC (Ret) Reprinted courtesy of Leatherneck Magazine At the outbreak of World War II, Brigadier General Robert L. Denig Sr ., then heading the Marine Corps’ Department of Public Relations and tasked with finding experienced reporters, photographers and broadcasters to cover the Pacific campaigns, put out the word to civilian newsmen: Make it thr

Tracy Crow is a member of the Florida Chapter and is an assistant professor at Eckerd College . She has a book that's been reviewed in the Tampa Bay Tribune called “Eyes Right, Confessions From a Woman Marine” . It's her second book published.  The first book is penned under the name Carver Greene called "An Unlawful Order."

Walt Ford tells us that it is official. Chip Jones' book "War Shots"   — the biography on Norm Hatch —  is the winner of the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation's Colonel Joseph Alexander Award for best biography in 2011.

Jack, thank you for your hospitality at last week’s event. I know you were very busy, and I appreciate the few minutes we spent together. I know many of your attendees did not have an opportunity to personally meet Chip Jones , or purchase his book. War Shots is an important book that all of your members should read! Following is a link to the book on my webstore. Chip was gracious enough to sign a few extra copies so we could offer them to your attendees. In addition, I wo

By Lance Cpl. Victor Barrera Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune While others were down on the dirt in the prone, he was standing, sometimes with his back to the enemy hearing the mortars go over his head and bullets snap, a little too close to home. When others fixed bayonets to prepare for hand-to-hand combat from an oncoming Japanese charge, he positioned himself right in the middle of them and captured the first picture to ever show both sides of the war attacking. Retired M

Dear Fellow Marines , My publisher, Windy City Publishers , just released my latest suspenseful novel, THE WARRIOR AMONG US. After a nuclear war annihilates an entire civilization, the United States falls off the international stage when Congress becomes impotent after years of partisan politics, and is unable to function. The world becomes a battleground centered in the deserts of the Middle East. Finally, a U.S. Marine takes up arms with another nation's army in an attempt

Leatherneck's editor, Col Walt Ford , USMC(Ret), interviews WWII Marine Corps combat cameraman Norm Hatch and Charles "Chip" Jones , the author of the book "War Shots," a story about Hatch's life. Also Bob Jordan's wrote a story about the book in Leatherneck Magazine's April 2011 issue which you can read by clicking on the link.

Writer's Cramp --Celebrated World War II cinematographer Norm Hatch is spending many of his days lately autographing copies of War Shots, the great tome by Charles Jones , highlights the photographic capture of World War II in the Pacific by Marine Combat Cameramen.

War Shots: Norm Hatch and the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Cameramen of World War II (Hardcover) A book by Charles Jones is finally available and features the story of how military photographers got their shots while storming beaches and assaulting pillboxes with combat troops. It also describes how long time member Norm Hatc h filmed With the Marines at Tarawa, which won the 1944 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject and was Person of the Week on ABC World News with

HERO OF THE PACIFIC: The Life of Marine Legend John Basilone. By James Brady. Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc. 272 pages. Stock #0470379413. $23.36 MCA Members. $25.95 Regular Price . We knew from conversations just prior to his sudden death in January 2009 that Parade Magazine's James Brady was working on a book covering the life of the legendary Marine, "Manila John" Basilone. What we did not know was how Brady would approach his subject. Brady followers, me among them,

"Hero of the Pacific:  The Life of Legendary John Basilone" is now out.  Noted journalist, author and Marine James Brady, who received the prestigious Denig Award at our San Antonio Conference, died suddenly several months ago following the conference. The book was completed just prior to his death.

Past president Col. Keith Oliver, USMC (Ret.), is gaining steam for his book, " Command Attention: Promoting Your Organization the Marine Corps Way."   Leatherneck Magazine named it November’s “Book of the Month.”  And www.wtop.com , owned by the Washington, D.C. radio station 103.5 FM features Keith's first radio interview. Check it out here: Keith Oliver's radio interview The U.S. Marine Corps is widely recognized and admired as the undisputed leader in presenting its case

The War on Terror is high on most Americans’ list of concerns. It promises to be with us for at least another generation to come. We are relatively safe within our borders – now. But experts agree that it’s not if, but when we may be attacked in the future. Much more needs to be done in many areas, such as protecting our borders on land and at sea, screening foreign visitors and getting the public more involved in neighborhood watch programs man-made and natural disasters are