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Material copyright 1999, Dan Marsh; all original artwork copyright
1999 by Louie Marsh. Please use with permission only.
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Since 2-18-98
3-20-2008 -
2008 Raider Reunion information and registration
forms online and ready to go for you!
Please Note: These are PDF files, if you don't have Adobe PDF
Reader, you can get it free online.
2-0202008 -
Big Changes have been made at our talk page. Due to
unstoppable comment spam we've moved to a whole different
host, and now have a forum instead of just a talk page.
Click Here for more details!
2-02-2008 - Five GREAT new pictures
and background from
Blair Stautzenberger for you -
click here!
11-05-2007 -
We have some sad news of a Raider who's passed away.
Details in Dan's Dispatches.
10-04-2007 -
I've finally gotten the final page of the 2007 San Diego Reunion up!
You can find it
right here!
Click Here
for a brief report and picture from the Reno Raider Roundup 2007 by
George MacRae. Updated 5-8-2007 with 7
more pictures!
Click Here
to read Rodger Spaulding's story of his time in the Raiders and his
post Raider service during World War Two.
"Born
Again Raider In Iraq!" Check out this exciting new page! We've
only got one picture on it now, but as events unfold we'll be
updating you on the activities of Marines in Iraq who are linked to
the Marine Raiders, and are called by many Raiders, "Born Again
Raiders."
Click Here
for more pictures from our 2006 Reunion in Nashville! Thanks to
Arnie Holder for sending them!
Also new - a website that makes WW2 style dogtags!
Check out the good work of Matthew Giangreco at
www.usmctags.com.
The
Hard Cover version of the long out of print and much sought after
"Bless 'em All" by Gen. Oscar F. Peatross is now available. If you
don't own a copy, click here to
find out how to order it, Adobe Reader required.
We received a note from Karen Loving
Carlson about her continued research into her Grandfather's life.
Click here to read the note and
find the link to a great article of Col. Carlson's time in China!
Click Here
for interviews
published in the Kwajalein Hourglass last year of the Raiders and
friends who were there for the dedication of the monument to the
Raiders who were executed there during the war.
Looking
for information on Raider family members? Well now
thanks to
Rudy Rosenquist,George MacRae, and Robert
Whichard; all of whom work with the Raider Museum - you can! Click
Here to find out how.
Click
here to see pictures from the dedication of the monument to the 9
lost Raiders on Kwajalein..
Click Here
for all our info on the Lost Raiders from Makin!
I have used Gung-Ho to welcome you to my
personal Web site because it characterizes what these pages are all about. The United
States Marine Raiders. The word from the Chinese means literally "Work
together," but has been corrupted to mean some thing less.
The Raiders understood the meaning
of the word and lived out "work together" in training and combat. However, they
would define it another way, "lookout for the man on your right and the man on your
left." They realized nothing was of more importance in any life situation and it
remains deeply ingrained in their character today.
Author in
the Corps & Korea!
MY PURPOSE
There exist
today official histories of Marine Raider operations as well fictional and
nonfictional accounts of their activities. I am not qualified, neither is it my intention to
supplement such histories and records. These pages are personal, based entirely on my
reaction and evaluation of events in my experience as I witnessed them, understood them
and remember them. Supplemental information is provided from various sources in the public
domain.
I AM SOLELY
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT OF THIS SITE.
DISCLAIMER: This site has not been authorized,
endorsed or reviewed by the office of the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps or
any other branch of The Department of Defense.
Also it has not been reviewed or approved by
The United States Marine Raider Association of which I am a member.