BMU 1 1952-1955

Comments: I looking for some of my friends from BeachMaster Unit 1. From Camp McGill to enchon Harbor and a few other places. I had so many buddies you think you would never forget.....that was the problem when I first got out that all I wanted to do was FORGET...I just learnedthat one of my best buddies past away..James R Thornberry..He will be missed my all.So if there are any beachmasters from that time 1952-1955 -PLEASE get in touch..

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James Thornberry RMCM USN RET Funeral

Comments: James R. Thornberry RMCM USN RET who served with Beach Master Unit 1 1952-1954 during Korean Conflict passed away on Mar 12, 2003.He was a member of BMU1 Reunion group.His obit and visitors memory book may be accessed at nelsonberna.com. His funeral is on Monday Mar 17, 2003

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NAVAL BEACH GROUP ONE 1950/1954

Comments: Would love to hear from any old shipmates. Read of a reunion to be held 4/23 to 4/26 2003 in Salt Lake City. Contact Karl E. Bevil, (309)248-7676. I don't remember Karl but the reunion is for Naval Beach Group One, years not mentioned. I can't make those dates due to prior commitment but I plan on calling Karl. Any other reunion or get togethers would be nice to know about. email would also be terrific.

Keywords: Stationed at Amphib Base, Coronado, Calif and Camp McGill, Takeyama, Japan.1950/1954

BOAT UNIT 1

Comments: I was transferred from the Cavalier APA37 in Japan to the Oglethorpe AKA 100 for transportation to Korea and assigned to the boat unit.I was engineer on an LCM , Coxswain was a guy named Brakeman one of the bowhooks named Whitey Hulse and the other I cant remember. Brakeman and Hulse were both from the Cavalier.( Later learned that Hulse has since died.) We made the landing at Inchon going in the first wave on Wolmi-do. After we debarked our troops I started to raise the ramp and the belt broke on the winch and of course the ramp wouldnt raise. But not to worry, the boat had two other belts that apparently were leftovers from WW11 because they each snapped as fast as I could get them on.The beach group Commander got a vehicle with a winch on it and it finally got the ramp up.This took some time& I was yelling at the coxswain to back us off and he was trying manfully but the boat would not move. This was getting a little testy because the Marines were being quite active on the beach and not a place Sailors were supposed to be. When we finally looked behind us, the waters edge was approx. 100 feet away. Inchons tide beat us. The beach group commander has us get out and get in a foxhole with our one carbine ( which none of us knew how to use) and we spent the day on the beach till the tide came back in the evening. We spent the next two weeks or so unloading ships and doing tug duty for LST,S. We lived in the boat for 2 weeks and tied up every night in the tidal Basin. Later we made the Wonson landing and then went back to the Cavalier. Would like to hear from any one who remembers those exciting times.

Keywords: LCM Sept. 1950

Interesting duty

Comments: I was with BMU-1 IN TAKEYAMA JAPAN 55-56 many fond memories, an a few landings. Maybe some one will remember those times. Regards Bob

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Looking for Beachmaster Unit 1 members from 1950-53

Comments: My father was a 17 year old kid at Hungnam for the evacuation and demolition. Best freinds were Kirby Crow and Charles Smith. Dad is disabled and unable to travel. He was contacted by LST 898 for a reunion last year but couldn't get there. He would love to find these two people and anyone else he was stationed with. Thanks for aby assistance.

Keywords: Father is Harold Lambing. Hungnam, Inchon, Wonsan, Camp McGill, Japan. LST 898 at Hungnam. Was in occupied Japan. Looking for Charles Smith from N.C. or S.C and Kirby Mintor Crow from TX or OK area and anyone else who may have served with him.

ser.on guam tank farm 1951-1952

Comments: i would like to locate some of my comrades who was in the fuel tank farm on guam in 1951-1952

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Boat Unit One

Comments: I went in the Boat unit right out of Boot Camp,My first trip to Camp McGill was Mar.1952 changed my rate to fireman became Eng 3rd class. All tolled I spent 36 months in and around Japan. After Korean War was over we had assault boat school for ship sailors and Marines

Keywords: I was in the Boat Unit Jan 2,1952 to August 15,1955.

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NBG-1

Comments: Guys, I was just surfing the net & found this site through a dogpile.com search. I was looking for info on my old unit, Naval Beach Group One, Coronado Isl., San Diego, California. I was asst. to the Scheduling Officer in '70-'71, a LtJG Beck. CO was Commodore Charles Koenigsberger, & Cdr. Murline was the XO. Dad was a Marine, joined in 1930 but wasn't inducted until '31, I believe. He was one of the "China Marines" of the '30's (7 yr.), then WWII and then Korea. He retired on my 7th birthday in '55. He passed away in '91. I miss him very much. I grew up on USMC bases until my 7th birth- day, and now that I've reached 50, I realize just how valuable Dad and the USMC have been to me in shaping my life and my values. I just wish that sentiment was more prevalent today in the country.

I'm very glad that more people are starting to recognize, at least a bit, how much you Korean vets contributed. I'm far from a great historian, and am more interested in Viet Nam and WWI, in all honesty, because the former was "my" war, and WWII was Dad's biggest "contribution." (? - there are NO small commitments in war, are there?) It's interesting that it was only after Desert Storm that stories and recognition of our wartime histories became at least "palpable" to much of our population, isn't it? I used to scoff at the idea of universal conscription, but now realize that I was probably wrong about that. Older & wiser????? (Hah!) Anyway, it's good that at least there is some recognition coming to all veterans of all our wars, "police actions" & "conflicts" (whatever those last two are, right?).

Just curious, but can anyone tell me anything about NBG-1? Is it still active? It's a pretty save assumption that there've been major changes since I left in'71, right? Prior to NBG-1, I served on the USS Bexar, LPA-237. We decommissioned her in '69, and with Slick Willie in the Oval Office, I KNOW it's only been shoved even deeper in the mothballs.

Any info anyone can provide would be much appreciated about NBG-1, Commodore Koenigsberger or Cdr. Murline. I guess it's just time for a little reflection & appreciation of things and folks gone by, eh?

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BEACH JUMPER - 1

Comments: Based at the Naval Amphib In Coronado Calif. Small Select group of apx 105 personel Our comanders name the best of my memory we called "Daddy Sears" I was discharged Sept 1954 as MN-3 We were a very secretive grp I hope that someone else out there remembers this grp

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Beachmasters Unit 1

Comments: My dad was with BM Unit 1 before going to USS Robinson. Time with BM would have been 1951-52. I've been searching in all the wrong places for info about the Beachmasters since I have'nt found anything yet. Any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks Kevin Wickes

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Inchon

Comments: I SERVED WITH BOAT UNIT ONE MADE THE INCHON AND WONSAN LANDINGS.1950-1952. ABOARD THE GEORGE CLYMER APA-27 1952-1954. LAST RATING BM3.

BOAT UNIT ONE IN KOREAN INVASION THEN LATER AT CAMP MC GILL IN JAPAN. AT THAT TIME WE WERE THE ONLY NAVY UNIT TO RECIEVE THE PRESIDENTIAL UNIT CITATION, FOR OUR LANDINGS AT INCHON WITH THE 1ST. MARINE DIVISION.

I HOPE SOMEONE OUT THERE WILL CHECK IN. I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM SOME OF YOU.

BEST WISHES TO ALL KOREAN VETS. IT WILL SOON BE 50 YRS.

PETER WURDELLA

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