WW2 Marines - Pacific (1 Viewer)

[Stryker II]

Hope the groom and friends snapped to and rendered honors.

What you didn't see was 100 guys with M-1's aimed at him if he decided to join the latest Banzai charge!!.................Stryker

 

[kingtoot]

that could be another great CS set of Pacific Theater marines..

 

[Stryker II]

Hey how about a set of MARINE SOUVENIR hunters displaying thier trophys in what could be called "AFTER ACTION". Swords, bayonets, flags, helmets and rifles were highly sought after, and there were some exagerated reports going on that some marine units could shoot a jap and have him field stripped of combat relics before he hit the ground dead! I know of many Marines who returned with war trophys, I got my nambu pistol rig that way from a returning marine vet. It has the holster, 2 matching magazines, some live nambu ammo, and cleaning rod. Over in that other conflict, lugers were very highly sought after...................Stryker

 

[Rob]

Lugers were indeed very popular items,being 'liberated' at every oppurtunity,in fact the Brits and Americans probably had more than the Germans did in Normandy!

Rob

 

[Phantom Warrior]

Lugers were indeed very popular items,being 'liberated' at every oppurtunity,in fact the Brits and Americans probably had more than the Germans did in Normandy!

Rob

But the Lugers came with a price. I heard the SS would shoot any captured allied solder with a Luger as it had to have come from a German officer.

Terry

 

[Stryker II]

But the Lugers came with a price. I heard the SS would shoot any captured allied solder with a Luger as it had to have come from a German officer.

Terry

Such "wonderful human beings"!! I think the russians had the right idea, no SS prisoners--all immediately delt with. Thats why the rats were scurrying around trying to ditch thier uniforms into regular army ones. Wasn't thier so called "leader-Himmler captured in an army uniform hiding?

I have a friend who's dad was one of the army dudes who liberated one of the death camps. Yes I actually do know someone who served in the army and wasn't priveledged enough to campaign in the pacific! Anyway, his dad made no bones about it and doesn't act in any way with regrets. He was a sherman tanker, and they shot every SS soldier they found on the spot, and turned the ones they found hiding over to the inmates...........Stryker

 

[lancer]

Hey how about a set of MARINE SOUVENIR hunters displaying thier trophys in what could be called "AFTER ACTION". Swords, bayonets, flags, helmets and rifles were highly sought after, and there were some exagerated reports going on that some marine units could shoot a jap and have him field stripped of combat relics before he hit the ground dead! I know of many Marines who returned with war trophys, I got my nambu pistol rig that way from a returning marine vet. It has the holster, 2 matching magazines, some live nambu ammo, and cleaning rod. Over in that other conflict, lugers were very highly sought after...................Stryker

Hi Stryker. On the above subject, have you seen or do you own the print by Rick Reeves (I think) that pictures just this event on Tarawa? It was done several years ago but as I recall, it was really well done. -- lancer

 

[Stryker II]

Hi Lancer, Kingtoot sent me a picture of the print and it is indeed a marvelous picture--wish I had one!! I have a picture somewhere of an army guy with so many german weapons on him--I don't know how he was moving. It reminded me of Don Rickles in Kelly's Heroes.

Do you own that painting?................Stryker

 

[Phantom Warrior]

Such "wonderful human beings"!! I think the russians had the right idea, no SS prisoners--all immediately delt with. Thats why the rats were scurrying around trying to ditch thier uniforms into regular army ones. Wasn't thier so called "leader-Himmler captured in an army uniform hiding?

I have a friend who's dad was one of the army dudes who liberated one of the death camps. Yes I actually do know someone who served in the army and wasn't priveledged enough to campaign in the pacific! Anyway, his dad made no bones about it and doesn't act in any way with regrets. He was a sherman tanker, and they shot every SS soldier they found on the spot, and turned the ones they found hiding over to the inmates...........Stryker

My father was with the Canadian army in Europe. After the SS executed some Canadian prisoners on D-Day, the life expectancy of any SS captured was very short, especially if there was no senior officer around.

Terry

 

[Stryker II]

My father was with the Canadian army in Europe. After the SS executed some Canadian prisoners on D-Day, the life expectancy of any SS captured was very short, especially if there was no senior officer around.

Terry

Congrats to your dad. I think that any allied unit that ran across what the SS did to innocent people and soldiers of the world, felt that retribution was needed and executed. My dad told me that on Guadalcanal, they found a marine tied to a tree, disembowled, and some other things done to him that I won't mention. After that incident, there was never another jap prisoner taken alive during the rest of the campaign. This went on for quite awhile and on to other islands too, as the US military was learning of the mindset of Japan. It was supremely disgraceful to surrender in war and they didn't like prisoners. After our guys found out what happens to them if captured, I'm sure the soldiers would prefer death than being taken by them. There is an account, and it is true, of at least 1 marine captured on Iwo Jima that was never found. He's still there someplace--God rest his soul!...........Stryker

 

[lancer]

Hi Lancer, Kingtoot sent me a picture of the print and it is indeed a marvelous picture--wish I had one!! I have a picture somewhere of an army guy with so many german weapons on him--I don't know how he was moving. It reminded me of Don Rickles in Kelly's Heroes.

Do you own that painting?................Stryker

No, I do not own it. Saw it in Gettysburg years ago during a TS buying trip and had no money left. I might have seen it at the Antique Center, do not remember for sure. At any rate, Stan Clark, book and soldier dealer at the Antique Center, specializes in Marine Corps material. He might have one or be able to locate one for you. He is a forum member under SCMBGETTY. Try getting in touch with him. -- lancer

 

[Stryker II]

No, I do not own it. Saw it in Gettysburg years ago during a TS buying trip and had no money left. I might have seen it at the Antique Center, do not remember for sure. At any rate, Stan Clark, book and soldier dealer at the Antique Center, specializes in Marine Corps material. He might have one or be able to locate one for you. He is a forum member under SCMBGETTY. Try getting in touch with him. -- lancer

Lancer: thank you very much for that interesting info! Anyone that specializes in Marine Corps anything is a friend of mine.. I will try and locate him, and if anyone knows him and is reading this--let him know...........Stryker

 

[Leadmen]

Leadman: in my studies concerning the Marine operations in WWII, I figured it almost had to be Okie or Japan itself, as I stated. Good picture of you with the M-1 and of course the famous Marine utility cover with its "8-points". Only Auburn Rubber company, as far as I know, ever molded these correctly for plastic figures on thier early Marines.

Brian: I again want to throw my hopes in that Tarawa will seriously be considered in any new projects...............Stryker

Here is a picture of the Auburn Rubber figures.

 

[Leadmen]

One more picture of the Auburn figures with utility covers. They are 2-3/4 inches tall from base to top of head.

 

[Rob]

Such "wonderful human beings"!! I think the russians had the right idea, no SS prisoners--all immediately delt with. Thats why the rats were scurrying around trying to ditch thier uniforms into regular army ones. Wasn't thier so called "leader-Himmler captured in an army uniform hiding?

I have a friend who's dad was one of the army dudes who liberated one of the death camps. Yes I actually do know someone who served in the army and wasn't priveledged enough to campaign in the pacific! Anyway, his dad made no bones about it and doesn't act in any way with regrets. He was a sherman tanker, and they shot every SS soldier they found on the spot, and turned the ones they found hiding over to the inmates...........Stryker

Very Well said.In my view they (along with the Japenese)were scum to be eradicated.Their regime's brought misery and death to the world on a massive scale.God bless everyman from every country that put on a uniform and helped rid the World of the Nazi's and Japenese,we will never for get your efforts that gave us a free world to live in.

Sorry for sounding almost evangelical about it,but my family suffered as a result of the Blitz,as a result the Nazi's and Japs (for how they treated Allied prisoners)turn my stomach.


Rob

 

[Stryker II]

HERE HERE ROB---VERY WELL SAID!!...............Stryker

 

[Stryker II]

Here is a picture of the Auburn Rubber figures.

Thanks for posting Leadman, excellent representations of our covers!!!!.................Semper Fi,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Stryker

 

[Stryker II]

Lancer: thank you very much for that interesting info! Anyone that specializes in Marine Corps anything is a friend of mine.. I will try and locate him, and if anyone knows him and is reading this--let him know...........Stryker

Lancer: made contact with Stan and am awaiting details, thanks for letting me know about this--it is a very movin and historical correct painting for uniforms from Tarawa!!!.............Stryker

 

[kingtoot]

Brian - where are you? Your fans are looking for a word of hope and change from you. If Germans (Nazis specifically) were so horrible, why do people overwhelmingly collect items of the worst regime ever to befall mankind? I've heard too often that Pacific items do not sell nowhere near as WW2 German. maybe the Japanese should have slaughtered more people before and during the war? I was told on pretty good authority that one theory WHY Pacific Theater does not sell as well as ETO is because of the enduring racist sentiment involved in the Pacific War, and this is (of course) racism of Westerners towards Japanese. If anything, Japanese and Nazis killed, tortured, raped, enslaved everybody who did not look or think like them. That sounds like racism to me. That's why Marines did not take prisoners. That's what my dad told me. He was in several major Pacific campaigns. Read the book "Flags of Our Fathers", much better than the movie, even though I tip my hat to Clint Eastwood for doing a fine job anyway.

 

[Rob]

HERE HERE ROB---VERY WELL SAID!!...............Stryker

Thanks Stryker.I saw a clip the other day from Pacific,WOW it looks good!.

Rob