Oft-forgotten battle at Guadalcanal was turning point in WWII

Kansas City Star ^ | August 7, 2002 | Rick Montgomery

[Non-Sequitur]

A 'lest we forget' bump on the 60th anniversary of a particularly nasty battle.

[A2J]

A "Greatest Generation" bump as well to ALL who served in WWII.

[ErnBatavia]

Happy to report that Mitchell Paige (Congressional Medal of Honor from Guadalcanal)is still doing just fine out here in La Quinta, California.

[blam]

A big bump to the Iron Bottom Sound boys.

[blam]

"Happy to report that Mitchell Paige (Congressional Medal of Honor from Guadalcanal)is still doing just fine out here in La Quinta, California."

Thank you. My hat's off to you young man.

[HangWithMe]

Thanks for the mention. My Dad, who is in a nursing home in California was a mess cook in the Army. He has pictures of Gaudalcanal, as well as a handwritten and illustrated book of the campaign there. I remember reading it as a small child and always wanted to talk to him about it, but he kept it to himself.
Here's to you, John Ferreira, (Shorty) I love you and appreciate your sacrifice.

[2banana]

Oft-forgotten battle at Guadalcanal was turning point in WWII

Not to nit pick, but Midway was the turining point of WWII in the Pacific theater...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Thanks very much to all those old vets.

[corkoman]

This is probably not the time and place to point that out.

[Psalm 73]

Highly recommend "Guadalcanal Diary" as a great read - written, I believe, by a Colonel who served from the first landing onward.
Read it in grammar school, and from there was hooked on military books for life.

[17th Miss Regt]

All of the Solomon Islands belonged to the Allies by February 1943.

Bad history. The author seems to have ignored the campaigns in New Georgia, Vella Lavella, Bougainville, and others in the Solomons, after Feb '43.

[MCRD]

When my Dad dropped me off to go to Boot Camp He gave me a clipping he had carried in his billfold for close to 20 years. It was the Prayer put on a young Marine's Grave on Guadalcanal that said "and to St. Peter he will tell another Marine reporting Sir, I've served my time in Hell". Semper Fi to all the WWII Marine Vets and a sincere thanks to the Navy and Army Vets also.

[stormer]

My father served at Guadalcanal. Whenever I think about the struggle and scarifices those brave men made, I am reminded of this:

And when they get to heaven,
to Saint Peter they will tell,
"Another Marine reporting, Sir.
I've served my time in Hell"

[Constitution Day]

I was wrong yesterday when I said it was the anniversary of the Guadalcanal landing... it's TODAY.
Sorry! 8^)

CD

[stormer]

Great minds think alike!

[gunnyg]

Thank You Marines--The Old Breed and the New!
We Remember!

Dick Gaines
GySgt USMC (Ret.)
1952-72

[gunnyg]

Regarding that Guadalcanal Epitaph/Pfc Cameron's Epitaph, here's some more specific info regarding that....
Ref
CLICK-HERE!!!!!

[skeeter]

Gray remembers hearing the taunts of enemy soldiers gathered in the jungle, waiting to attack.

"They'd holler profanities about Eleanor Roosevelt," he says.

Taunt? Maybe the Japanese were trying to make friends.