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Posted: 9/19/2004 2:06:43 PM EDT
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Be sure to link to part 2, tomorrow.
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Posted: 9/19/2004 2:39:59 PM EDT
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Manila John Basilone. Basilone Road is the main road across the base. In fact I believe that stretch of I-5 is named the John Basilone.
Ma Danby's Step-Grandfather served with him before WWII. |
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Posted: 9/19/2004 2:46:25 PM EDT
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That was one outstanding Marine. A legend in the Corps, and a true American.
Everyone should read his story. 
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Posted: 9/19/2004 2:55:34 PM EDT
[#4]
Good Story so far!
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Posted: 9/19/2004 4:33:07 PM EDT
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Will do. |
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Posted: 9/19/2004 9:13:10 PM EDT
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I've always wondered what the Basilone story was. I see the signs and drive on Basilone road to get to Wilcox Range but never knew. The museum was always closed or I didn't have time. Now I am learning.
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Posted: 9/19/2004 9:14:05 PM EDT
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Tag.
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Posted: 9/20/2004 4:44:07 PM EDT
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bump
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Posted: 9/20/2004 6:10:56 PM EDT
[#9]
Bump for part two evening crowd! Good read!
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Posted: 9/20/2004 6:14:54 PM EDT
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I know of John Basilone. My father served aboard the U.S.S. Basilone DDE-824 from 1955 to 1957.
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Posted: 9/21/2004 1:42:56 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/21/2004 1:50:47 PM EDT
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tagged
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Posted: 9/21/2004 7:46:09 PM EDT
[#13]
bump for the night crew
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Posted: 9/22/2004 11:20:42 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/22/2004 5:54:59 PM EDT
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bump for night crew
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Posted: 9/22/2004 6:30:35 PM EDT
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extra bump for night crew...
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Posted: 9/23/2004 6:59:54 AM EDT
[#17]
bump for part 5
www.ocregister.com/news/2004/basilone/part5.shtml Some of the Marines expected to die before they hit the beach. They expected Iwo Jima to be surrounded with underwater gasoline drums the Japanese would detonate as the U.S. amphibious landing craft approached the shallow water. Johnny Basilone and his men wiped white cream on their faces to protect against flash burns. They looked like ghosts. |
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Posted: 9/23/2004 6:55:41 PM EDT
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bump for night crew
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Posted: 9/23/2004 7:04:35 PM EDT
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Tag
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Posted: 9/23/2004 8:02:38 PM EDT
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tag
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Posted: 9/23/2004 8:21:40 PM EDT
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Iwo Jima.... Go Johnny!
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Posted: 9/24/2004 8:19:24 AM EDT
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bump for Final Episode
www.ocregister.com/news/2004/basilone/part6.shtml They had heard the sound a hundred times, a low whir that becomes deafening, a sickening signal that an enemy mortar is on its way. There is no running from a mortar. There is just a prayer that its trajectory does not intersect your path. Johny Basilone was running across an open field, a squad of men behind him. Johny was set to rescue his men who were pinned down at the base of Mt. Suribachi. Too far forward, the place Johny loved to be. The mortar exploded at his feet. Shrapnel tore through his legs all the way to his lower abdomen. Johny went down. |
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Posted: 9/24/2004 6:50:34 PM EDT
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bump for night crew
last episode |
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Posted: 9/25/2004 11:59:47 PM EDT
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