Leatherneck Magazine - October 2008

Mail Call

Edited by Sara Wirtala Bock

“Mail Call” entries are free and printed on a space-available basis. Leatherneck reserves the right to edit or reject any submission. Allow two to three months for publication. Send your e-mail to: leatherneck@mca-marines.org, or write to: Mail Call Editor, P.O. Box 1775, Quantico, VA 22134.

• Marine veteran Brian Gillespie, 101 Lenape Trl., Brielle, NJ 08730, (732) 921- 7411, drums6051@msn.com, tohearfrom active, Reserve and veteran Marines and FMF corpsmen who are interested in joining the newly formed Jersey Shore Marine Corps League detachment in the Manasquan area.

• Former LCpl Al Villy, (727) 243- 2687, rollinstone307@aol.com, to hear from LCpl Charles GUEST or Sgt Frank GUEST, or anyone else who served with 68th Rifle Co, Camden, N.J., 1958-65.

• Former SSgt Dave Hennion, 1254 Galloway Cir., Pontiac, MI 48340, (248) 475-3411, daveh67@comcast.net, to hear from members of Plt 1071, Parris Island, 1967-68; Co H, 8th Marines, Cuba, 1968; and from leathernecks stationed at Marine Barracks Sasebo, Japan, 1971-75, especially Sgt Larry S. McINTYRE.

• Former SSgt Gordon G. Harris, 7727 Tommy St., #18, San Diego, CA 92119, (619) 741-0032, gorharrisII@aol.com, to hear from members of Plt 92, San Diego, June-August1946.

• Marine veterans Robert and Ruby Gavin, 142 5th St., Nazareth, PA 18064, (610) 746-9851, to hear from or about Robert ROCHELEAU, James R. MOORE, Donald SHOUP, Evelyn ORBIN and Patricia PORTZER, pictured below, who were members of the Gavins’ wedding party, 1958, MCB Camp Lejeune, N.C.

COURTES Y OF CHUCK SPIKES

If you know the whereabouts of Marines SPIKES, WOODELL,“WILLY”or“PAPPY,”Korean Warveteran Chuck Spikes would like to hear from you.

• Marine veteran Chuck Spikes, 9320 S. Berkshire Ave., Inverness, FL 34452- 9002, (352) 860-2400, chuckandelaine@ hughes.net, to hear from or about the Marines in the above picture, who served with him in Ascom City, Korea, 1952-53, in 1st Combat Service Group, 1stMar- Div, FMF.

• Marine veteran Ellis T. “Butch” Badon, 27170 Snead Dr., Abita Springs, LA 70420, bbadon@stpgov.org, to hear from Marines willing to share information regarding past All-Marine football teams.

• LtCol Richard D. “Salty” Lynch, USMC (Ret), 101 Bradford Ln., Madison, WI 53714, (608) 249-1280, to hear from members of Plt 252, 1941, and Comm Plt, Hq Co, 2/22.

• Former Sgt Joseph V Tillman Jr., 175 Beaty Taff Dr., Crawfordville, FL 32327, tillyinflorida@embarqmail.com, to hear

Marine veterans Robert and Ruby Gavin celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this year, and would like to hear from members of their wedding party, pictured to the left.

COUR TES Y OF ROBERT AND RUB Y GAVIN

from Marines who served at Khe Sanh, Vietnam, 1968, particularly Dennis HARDIN, Dacre Hubble DUNN, Bill LANDRUM,Boris BOGESLOSKI,Bill DRONEY and Willie LAFEVRE, 3d Force Recon attached to 1st 8-inch Howitzer Btry.

• TSgt Tim Kline, USAF (Ret), 2525 S. W. 90th St., Oklahoma City, OK 73159, (405) 691-8454, tsgt7696@aol.com, to hear from anyone who served with or remembers PFC Leland Leroy PHER-NETTON from Wisconsin, who was killed during May 1945 at Okinawa while attached to Co C, 1st Bn, 5th Marines, 1stMarDiv.

• Former Cpl Ralph A. Cabrera, P.O. Box 381, Brielle, NJ 08730, (732) 447- 6946, racac68@verizon.net, to hear from those who served with VMF(AW)-333, December 1962 through 1966, and from members of Plt 319, Parris Island, 1962.

• Marine veteran Dan “Tank” Bagrow-ski, 8155 Leamington Ave., Burbank, IL 60459, mareen6164@att.net, to hear from those who served with 81 mm mortar plts, 2/7 and 3/7, 5th MEB (Cuban Missile Crisis).

• Former Sgt Robert McMonegal, 12A Potomac Ln., Whiting, NJ 08759, rob-carmc@juno.com, to hear from members of Plt 302, Parris Island, 1957, and anyone who served with him at Quantico, Va., Camp Pendleton, Calif., or on Okinawa between 1957 and 1961.

• Former Cpl Julian McCoy, 401 W. Main St., Lamar, SC 29069, (843) 326- 5370, julian.mccoy@att.net, to hear from Marines who served with or have inf ormation regarding 2dLt Paul Andrew LONGFELLOW, formerly Paul WA-TEROFF from Massachusetts, who was killed in action during WW II.

• Marine veteran Henry “Joe” Vickery, 2613 16th Ave. Cir., Texas City, TX 77590, vic33@aol.com, tohearfromanyone who served with him at Naval Base San Diego as an MP or at Camp Del Mar, 1951-52, as an LVT mechanic.