#7th marines

[carbone14]

Marines Douglas Lightheart avec son calibre 30 mm et Gerald Thursby Sr. du 1st Battalion, 7th Marines – Bataille de Peleliu – Campagne des îles Mariannes et Palaos – Guerre du Pacifique – île de Peleliu – 15 septembre 1944

Photographe : Caporal Clements

©National Archives and Records Administration

[vietnamwarera]

USMC M50 Ontos, 1965

[vietnamwarera]

US Marine of the 7th Marine Regiment humping a 60mm mortar tube, 1970.

[johnpodlaski]

Death Valley: Remembering August 20, 1969

Death Valley: Remembering August 20, 1969

Some veterans have commented that I don’t have anything posted regarding “Death Valley” and the 1969 battle pitting the NVA against the 196th Infantry Brigade and the 7th Marines.  So I did some searching and came up with a 1st person account.  My guest, Robert B. Robeson, originally wrote this story for the “Tom Howard / John H. Reid Short Story Contest” in 2011 and then won the Second Place…

View On WordPress

[peerintothepast]

A machine gunner with the 7th Marines takes a break during Operation Meade River near the city of Da Nang, November 1968. (LCPL R. Sanville/Marine Corps/National Archives)

[peerintothepast]

Pvt. R. Jones of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines takes a standing break during Operation Pitt, 12 miles north of Da Nang, December, 1967. (Photo by Lcpl Brumch/U.S. Marine Corps/National Archives)

[smokepit-fairytales]

[vietnamwarera]

A welcome home sign for a wounded Marine coming home from the hospital, 1970.