My father began his career as a Marine Paratrooper in 1942, eventually serving 8 years during WWII and Korea. He passed away recently and left me several hundred old pictures, several dozen of which were taken during his time in the service. They were taken around San Diego, Camp Pendelton and an unidentifiable South Pacific island and can be viewed at a website I created, www.clydeadams.com/searching/. If you have any knowledge of the time, location or people in these pictures, please contact me at info@clydeadams.com.
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The photos 1949-23,24 & 25, look to have been taken in front of Grumman's Chinese theater in Las Angeles. Photo# 1950-22 those are Navy L.S.T's. Sorry I can't be of more help. There was a photo of a tank. In the, For what it's worth DEPT. The tank is an M-3 stuart Light tank
Great pictures and great websight!! My father also recently passed away and was also a paramarine. No pics here and after many years I finally got a few stories. Someday I will get a pic of him somewhere I have a feeling.
thanks so much for taking the time to check these out. i've received some other feedback to identify some of the pics. just wondering, do you know what paramarine unit you father served in?
The is indeed an M-3 Stuart. It looks to be one of the older ones as it still retains, or appears to retain, the .30 machine guns outboard of the view slit panels. I've got a model of one sitting my Armor park display on top of one of my bookcases. Two of the American Legion Posts in my home area have M-5 Models of the Stuart displayed in front of their building. I've been trying for years to buy the one in Mercer County from them.
