[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 11/16/2003. Thanks ErnBatavia. Got fired up by the latest appearance of Vin Suprynowicz' piece (from year 2000) about the land and sea battles of Guadalcanal, where US armed forces, outnumbered and outgunned, took on the forces of the Empire of Japan, mere months after Pearl Harbor, and started the continual process of handing them their asses.

[BroJoeK]

Thanks for the ping, amazing life:

RedBloodedAmerican: "The Mitchell Paige GI Joe figure was released in 1998."

ciexyz: "Pittsburgh PA considers him a local boy.
Born 1918 in Charleroi PA, graduate of McKeesport High School (both areas are in Western PA outside of Pittsburgh)."

Charleroi, PA?
Just 14 miles from Cokeburg, PA...

You remember Cokeburg, right?
AKA Sweetwater, hometown of another famous marine, Charleroi Leroy Jethro Gibbs:

"Gibbs was born on May 2, 1958, and was shown in the episode 'Heartland' to have grown up in Stillwater, Pennsylvania.[3]
The town is real, and the scenes in the episode were modeled after Bellisario's hometown of Cokeburg...

"...Charleroi Leroy Jethro Gibbs is played by Mark Harmon and his character is named for his father's best friend, Leroy Jethro Moore, a Montford Point Marine (played by Billy Dee Williams).
The character L.J. Moore was depicted receiving the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Pacific Theater of World War II..."

So, it turns out that USMC Colonel Mitchell Paige lives on, not only in the GI Joe action figure, but also in spirit in long running fiction: