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Messages - jstevens
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« on: February 20, 2026, 07:10:45 pm »
Posted this picture before but this is a little better quality. I can almost make out the number on the LVT1 in the background. Is it 30 or 50 something?
Jon
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« on: October 08, 2025, 05:02:26 pm »
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« on: October 07, 2025, 01:07:49 pm »
Just got this book, Iron Graves of Saipan. Author is Dan King who has written several other books on Japan in WWII. Will report in with a book review but it appears to have much interesting information.
Jon
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« on: July 10, 2025, 01:35:01 pm »
Kim, I think that is Scott Freund. Shoot! I hope I saved the photos! Jon Hi all from Betio/New Zealand
Just going through my google drive looking at some old folders people shared with me. One was deleted by owner folder was named
D-Day photos second batch
and was mostly photos from the air, from gottfreudtr@gmail.com
I truelly cant remember which member sent to me lol.
Would love to get them again was trying to do a now vs then photo collection for us all here.
Any help please
K Harrison
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« on: May 20, 2025, 05:35:06 pm »
Wow! I would be very interested to see the photos and especially the Japanese map. The author of the book mentioned may be on the forum. I will try to follow up and find his contact info. Jon Hi! Thanks for your help. I did manage to print October's muster rolls for the first battalion but I'm still trying to figure out how to read the 'footnotes'. I suspect this may be a time-consuming endeavor. If anyone can come up with a name for the book you mentioned, I'd love to read it. I thought I had read everything about the battle, but don't recall a book about the 18th Marines (maybe Bordelon or Bonnyman?). By the way, I also have a super Tarawa group to a gent from the 2nd tractor battalion (Co. B) named Bryant. There's a photo album with some unpublished pics of Tarawa in it as well as a couple of Japanese flags, bayonet, etc. Also have a captured hand-drawn Japanese map of Betio. Alrighty, well, thanks again. I'll post updates, if anyone is interested.
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« on: April 04, 2025, 02:44:57 pm »
I might have posted this previously but here is some of the radiomen from H&S Co presumably in New Zealand. My dad is center with no cover. What do you guys think? Is this New Zealand or stateside near San Diego?
Jon
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« on: March 27, 2025, 05:46:18 pm »
Assuming this is Red Beach 2. I cant quite make out the name of the tank. Also note Sadu Maru in the background.
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« on: February 05, 2025, 01:15:49 pm »
Did you check Fold 3 for these documents?
Jon
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« on: July 09, 2024, 06:24:40 pm »
OK troops!
I have located the entire database for the old TT. 1,780 pages. Stay tuned. Yes it was well hidden, took a long time, but I got it!
Jon
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« on: May 21, 2024, 01:09:57 pm »
There is a book by a 2nd Div Interpreter that has some info on Colley. I have it at home.
Jon
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« on: April 03, 2024, 06:03:19 pm »
I have two series of pictures of H&S Marines. One group is definitely NZ as they were visiting some sort of Garden with girls and tiki images around. The second series is the H&S Marines sitting around the cactus which is one of the pictures I posted. There could have been radio training at Camp Pendleton. The ranks on the sleaves might help to identify the approximate date too. I will do some more checking and report back!
Thanks,
Jon
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« on: March 28, 2024, 11:12:46 pm »
Take a look at the attached picture. My dad is in the center and the other Marines I think are H&S 2 men. This has to be either New Zealand or Camp Tarawa. What do you think?
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« on: January 15, 2024, 01:19:33 pm »
I wonder if that is just debris atop the hill? Just curious where this is located. Does not appear to be Bonneyman's Hill. Jon Don't think that is an 8" gun up there. The only gun mounted that much above ground level was very near the beach and I don't see any beach in the image.
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« on: January 14, 2024, 06:54:08 pm »
Which gun is that in the background on the hill? Is that one of the 8" guns?
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« on: January 12, 2024, 01:04:56 pm »
You can see LVTs (probably LVT4) and higgins boats in action this summer in MI. I will be there to the best of my ability.
Date: June 21- 23, 2024
Location: Tiscornia Park, St Joseph, Michigan
Landing craft: 3 Higgins Boats, 2 LVT’s, and 2DUKW’s.
Amphibious assaults: D-Day morning and Pacific War in the afternoon.
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JICPOA Documents Online
by Matthew_Baker1942
February 20, 2026, 07:50:23 pm
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LVT Off Red 1
by jstevens
February 20, 2026, 07:10:45 pm
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Tarawa Update - November 20, 2025
by ChiefRickStone
November 21, 2025, 10:23:05 am
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18th Marines
by Jim Crue
November 10, 2025, 02:08:58 pm
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Iron Graves of Saipan
by jstevens
October 08, 2025, 05:02:26 pm
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Google Drive With D Day photos ?
by Kim Harrison
July 11, 2025, 03:38:45 am
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Camp MacKay
by TRGodwin
June 25, 2025, 10:20:15 am
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2nd Platoon A-1-6 NZ
by MikeVE
June 22, 2025, 11:46:54 pm
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8th Marines Saipan.
by TRGodwin
June 21, 2025, 09:57:56 am
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Tank on Beach during body recovery
by gunnygp
April 11, 2025, 11:54:43 am
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