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re: 77 years ago today, the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
Posted on 11/14/19 at 11:13 am to Jim Rockford
Posted on 11/14/19 at 11:13 am to Jim Rockford
My paw paw was a Navy Seabee at Guadalcanal in 1942. He ended up getting malaria but survived that. He passed about 10 years ago. Great man and great American. 
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Posted on 11/14/19 at 11:24 am to doubleb
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Actually Midway was when the Japs lost the initiative, but Guadalcanal bought us time and proved that we could beat the Japanese army in the jungles.
Agreed. I was actually referencing the ground campaign when we started taking back territory that Japan had occupied before the war.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 11:28 am to Jim Rockford
Ironbottom sound is a solemn place for american and japanese sailors.
Lots of men died there.
Lots of men died there.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 1:19 pm to MountainTiger
Sadly, the USS Atlanta was destroyed by friendly fire. Another cruiser blasted it with its main batteries in the night action.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 1:24 pm to Placebeaux
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My Grandfather was in the 1st Marine Division when they left New Zealand.
Grandfather was in the 1st as well and brought my grandmother back from New Zealand. The book "Neptune's Inferno" chronicles the Battle of Guadalcanal mostly from the Navy's perspective both from the United States and Japan.
Neptune's Inferno
Posted on 11/14/19 at 1:43 pm to bad93ex
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Grandfather was in the 1st as well and brought my grandmother back from New Zealand
I found out last year that I have family in New Zealand. Grandpa was a character.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 1:45 pm to Placebeaux
Your Grandfather is a MAN among men!!!!
Posted on 11/14/19 at 1:53 pm to Placebeaux
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I found out last year that I have family in New Zealand. Grandpa was a character.
New Zealand women absolutely loved the Marines.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 1:57 pm to Placebeaux
I would be making a trip.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 1:58 pm to bad93ex
My Grandfather drunk in New Zealand before shipping off to Guadalcanal
Him with his Company in New Zealand
Him with his Company in New Zealand
Posted on 11/14/19 at 2:11 pm to Funky Tide 8
Thanks man. I got the honor of meeting many of those vets. He would take me to all his reunions. Greatest generation.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 3:30 pm to Placebeaux
One or two thoughts in general. It wasn't mentioned but Lee was absolutely the right man to be in charge of gunnery. Before Mark Spitz won 7 Olympic gold medals the record was 5 by Lee - all in shooting. He then specialized in gunnery in the Navy. He viewed the 16 in guns on a battleship as part of a "gunfight" with other ships.
Also as SEC related I should mention that Shug Jordan was a combat engineer- he invaded Sicily, North Africa, Normandy and Okinawa. Not much else to say about that
Also as SEC related I should mention that Shug Jordan was a combat engineer- he invaded Sicily, North Africa, Normandy and Okinawa. Not much else to say about that
This post was edited on 11/14/19 at 3:33 pm
Posted on 11/14/19 at 3:33 pm to Placebeaux
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Thanks man. I got the honor of meeting many of those vets. He would take me to all his reunions. Greatest generation.
I was hoping that one of them in the picture was my grandfather. He had a lot of mementos from the war in his collection but nearly all of it was lost during a house fire. Absolute shame. Greatest generation indeed.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 3:48 pm to Placebeaux
Looks like already has some rank on him. He looks like he is having a good time. The calm before the storm.
Glad he made it home.
Glad he made it home.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 5:13 pm to ThirdGeneration
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Before Mark Spitz won 7 Olympic gold medals the record was 5 by Lee - all in shooting. He then specialized in gunnery in the Navy. He viewed the 16 in guns on a battleship as part of a "gunfight" with other ships.
Also shot three snipers during the Veracruz campaign.
Bad arse all around.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 5:23 pm to ThirdGeneration
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Also as SEC related I should mention that Shug Jordan was a combat engineer- he invaded Sicily, North Africa, Normandy and Okinawa. Not much else to say about that
He must have volunteered for the Pacific. With that much time in theater he would have been eligible to go home.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 5:25 pm to bad93ex
That's the only ones I have. Lost everything else in Katrina
Posted on 11/14/19 at 6:39 pm to Jim Rockford
My grandfather was on the San Francisco heavy cruiser at Guadalcanal. Pearl through the Leyte Gulf. I was about 12 or so when he died but he never talked about it to me. I think he was a corpsman so he probably saw the worst the war had to offer.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 6:42 pm to Placebeaux
Damn dude, thats sad.
I have to ask, why did you leave that shite when you knew what was coming?
I have to ask, why did you leave that shite when you knew what was coming?
Posted on 11/14/19 at 9:47 pm to Hogbit
It was all locked up in my Grandmother's house and she evacuated with my dad the day before. I was busy at work evacuating 95 plus oil platforms.
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