Suicide Charley Memorial Dedication Ceremony Video
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Suicide Charley
Home of the Marines of Suicide Charley
A Marine veteran builds memorial honoring lost lives in his front yard
Copyright 2021 WBAY. All rights reserved. LENA, Wis. (WBAY) – Normally, veteran memorials are found in parks or cemeteries. But for Marine veteran Mike Vizer, who served from 1989 to 1993, you can find one in his front yard in…
The Doom Patrol: Eight Marines on a Suicide Mission in Vietnam
Jack WellsApril 2019 Orignal Story Posted: Historynet.com In February 1968, eight Marines volunteered for a suicide mission After 32 casualties during the first 30 hours of Operation Pursuit, initiated in mid-February 1968 by the 1st Marine Division to search for…
U.S. embassy post in Iraq meant six months with no days off
By Chuck Lentz Independent Nolan Forbes of Aurora recently spent four active-duty years in the U.S. Marine Corps, but he remembers most fondly just six months at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. Forbes, 23, was a Marine from 2015…
The Legend of Suicide Charley
COMPANY C, 1ST BATTALION, 7TH MARINES, AND THE BATTLE FOR HENDERSON FIELD, 24–25 OCTOBER 1942 By: Major Gary Gozzens, USMCR (Retired) The 1st Marine Division (1st MarDiv) landed on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, on 7 August 1942, and during the next…