Naval gunfire,Camp Catlin 1951-54

Comments: Was in USMC at Camp Catlin & East Coast of Korea, Naval Gunfire, from 1951-1954.

Would like to hear from guys who were there.

Now live in Canada.

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1st Anglico, camp catlin, 1952-1953

Comments: If anyone knows the month and year that several teams were on the Bon Homme Richard Aircaraft Carrior I would appreciate this information. Also, need to know when we watched the Atomic Bomb blast- - Month & year in 1952 or 1953. I found one friend who was with me but he's 81 and his memory is gone as he didn't remember me or any thing else about that time. I'm sure Jim MacInturff would remember if anyone knows how to find him. He also worked at the enlisted men's club as a bartender at Camp Catlin.I think he was from Missouri when he was drafted in 1951

Keywords: Units were 8 enlisted men with one officer. Friends were James (Jim) MacInturff, David Barnhizer, Norman Brezeal and several others. Spent some time on the Bon Homme Richard Aircraft Carrior in Korean waters. Watched an Atomic bomb blast in Nevada after a cancelled trip to Alaska to train troops.

before D-day at Inchon

Comments: Two authors are currently working on books that will include ANGLICO history during the Korean War. I'm working to assist with info to post on the ANGLICO forum for their use.

A confusing issue has arisen, one of many, due to the lack of official records for 1st ANGLICO or those detached as 1st Signal Battalion.

I have photos of a Marine who landed on or near Inchon PRIOR TO D-day. The account by Gen. Krulak ("First to Fight") states that the Army's request for Marine Raiders (apparently didn't exist after 1944) was rejected by the Marines - the Raiders and other allied special units were to recon the area prior to D-day.

There are so many conflicts among the vague accounts, that I can't figure out what happened. Were ANGLICO Marines recruited for such a mission by McArthur without approval from Marine Corps command? Does anyone know anything about pre-Inchon landing reconnaisance mission? Were ANGLICO Marines in place to call in NGF?

Is all this B.S.?

Are there any official documents about ANGLICO ops?

Does anyone have books to recommend that would assist me in unravelling the details of ANGLICO support for all the units it supported?

Thanks, and Semper Fi,

Vance Hall, Duty NCO www.1anglico.org

Keywords: Inchon, D-day, ANGLICO

ANGLICO websites

Comments: The website for the ANGLICO Assoc. is down, our outstanding former webmaster unable to continue, and I've been asked to rebuild it.

The new ANGLICO Association website will take some months to reconstruct, as many of the photos and files will have to be recovered.

We have this static public website, under construction now, and we have an interactive, restricted-access forum. Links to both are at www.1anglico.org. Contact me to gain access to the restricted ANGLICO forum.

Our Korean War collection of historical documents and images is growing slowly but steadily. But this segment of our earliest history is difficult to reconstruct, as our teams were detached to other units. Two authors are currently penning books on ANGLICO's entire history, and have access not only to the Korean War Project, but also to the ANGLICO Assoc. and ANGLICO forum information.

Semper Fi

Keywords: Sub Unit One, KMC, ROKMC, Vietnam

Naval Gunfire Platoon

Comments: Master Sgt. Claude Talbott was one of our spotters. We also manned a "generator bunker" on an island just below the lines and connected to the shoreline by a small land bridge. From this bunker we sent out a beam for ships to lock onto to fix their position.

Keywords: Me, Dick Detzer as radio operators and others spotters for Naval Gunfire assigned to 15th ROK Army Division on Korea east Coast involved in enemy attack on Hill 351 known as Anchor Hill, 2 to 4 June 1953 and 13 to 15 june 1953.

Information

Comments: Are Marines such as myself who enlisted in August 1953 and eventually sent to Kobi Japan but not Korea considered Korean ERA Marines

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Wegner, Richard Lee - ANGLICO Casualty

Comments: Wegner, Richard Lee . Rank Not Aailable . Date Not Avaiable MIA - 1st Signal Bn. ANGLICO Chosin Res.

I need more information, especially the date, in order to properly honor this ANGLICO Marine on the ANGLICO Association website and the ANGLICO forum.

If anyone has more information, please contact me.

Semper Fi

Keywords: Wegner, Richard Lee - 1st Signal Bn. ANGLICO Chosin Res.

Command Chronologies

Comments: A number of us are working hard to compile our unit's history from the Korean War to present. We have very limited info on JASCO, all the Command Chronologies from 1965-1972 for Vietnam, but no official documents for the Korean War. I have only one article about us in an Artillery journal.

If anyone knows where I can find 1st ANGLICO Command Chronologies (or equivalent official USMC records) for the Korean War, I'd like to add these to our ANGLICO website. I was recently outbid on EBAY for some unofficial book about the Korean War Anglicans.

Thanks, and.... Semper Fi

Keywords: Nightcover 1-4

trying to get on site

Comments: Just trying to enter site for 1st Anglico

Keywords: Pohang Dong,Puson,Inchon,North Korea

close air support-korea

Comments: Would like to hear from other members of the unit.

Keywords: 1st Marine Division 1952

Camp catlin

Comments: What fun!

Keywords: island off N.Korea Yongpyong-do (spelling?); August 1952-Fef. 1953. At army artillery company 40 miles north of Soctcho-ri August '53-Feb. '54.

1ANG, Camp Catlin & Korea

Comments: Served 1st ANGLICO FMF, Camp Catlin 3/52-3/54 with 6 mo. on Sok'to, N. Korea calling in Naval Gunfire and artillery (90mm field guns).

Sgt. Max Sarazin USMC 1194840/2531 PDD Max Sarazin, Seadog Pound Keeper, #338 Past Cmdt C&I Det 955, MCL

Keywords: 'Wildcat', NGF Plt, Camp Catlin, Hill 407? Sok'to.

1st anglico camp smith

Comments: like to hear from 1st anglico marines camp smith 1956-1958 or naval gunfire 2nd anglico uss rockbrige lebanon 1958

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camp catlin, ohau, hi

Comments: Would like to hear from anyone who serve at camp catlin, during 1948 -1950. I was assigned to casual company during that period.

CWO(Ret.) R. Connolly

Keywords: hq fmf pac., camp catlin, hi 1948-1950

FIRST ANGLICO FMF PAC 51-52 KOREA

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Keywords: punch bowl 51-52

thanks

Comments: HI

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1st ANGLICO FMF PAC, Camp Catlin

Comments: Served with 1st ANGLICO, FMF PAC, Mar 51 - Mar 53, originally stationed in Pearl Harbor, then opened Camp Catlin. Played football with the FMF PAC team coached by Capt. Norm Verry (Fall of 1951). Part of the team of 24 ANGLICO Marines sent to Japan to teach Army foward observers the principles of Naval Gunfire; then to Okinawa for a landing operation with the 29th Infantry. Served with a team on the West Coast of Korea on the islands of Sokto and Chodo. Names of personnel familiar with at those time: Ken Moser, Bob Powell, George Memmer, Bob Petkus, Paul Sotlaire, Bill Dombroski, Ray Winder, Ernie Barfield, Charlie Maki, Frank Silkman, Don Spicer, Ken Youngman, Scotty Masterson, and many other fantastic individuals.

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1st ANGLICO Reunion 2006

Comments: May 18-21 2006. Hotel at 1-877-609-6086 Midwest Conference Center, Columbus. I forgot to post this notice in a timely fashion here this year. Better late than never, I hope. We have a lot of Korean Era guys show up at this reunion. Jerry Thomas, Howie Beale, & Ken Netznick have died since last year's reunion. Thomas and Beale had reservations at the hotel, but didn't make it. Hope you can. Semper Fi.

Keywords: ANGLICO

Additional Information to Bob Arnold's article

Comments: Bob Arnold's comments did not cover information about the Air Platoon since he was with Naval Gunfire Platoon. While stationed at the reclaimed Camp Catlin quonsets these air teams trained at Makua Valley, calling air strikes via field radios with planes from aircraft carriers located at Pearl Harbor. Teams were rotated to Korea in 6 month intervals, usually relieving each team before them attached to the KMC's. First groups were sent to the Yalu River area and were overrun by the Chinese, then moved to the Punch Bowl area, but few air strikes available particularly during the winter of 51-52....teams worked with artilery part of the time because our radio communications. As the war moved to the south/west near the 8th parellel and the DMZ (before it was so deisgnated)aircraft (mostly AD's) were more plentiful and lent great support for napalm coverage in the open "no-mans-land" area's between the more mountainous zones. Pilots from Austrailia and England participated. Korean Marines's had little equipment or artillery and were vunerable to Chinese and N Korean combat troups. The KMC's and our air teams were too far forward for most USMC regiment artillery support so 1st Anglico air support was effective. Air team members, Sgt Eli Basquin was awarded the Bronze Star w/Combat "V" and Sgt Bob Richardson received a Special Commendation Medal on Marine Corp Birthday Regiment Parade Nov.'52 by FMF Commanding General Franklin Hart at Pearl Harbor. Anglico team members and pictures are available.

Keywords: Pearl Harbor, Camp Catlin, Air Platoon, Makua Valley, Korea, Yalu River, Chosin Resevoir. Punch Bowl, KMC's, DMZ, Freedom Gate Bridge, Panmunjon, '51-54,

First Anglico FMF PAC Korean War (continued)

Comments: Perhaps one of the most elite, and least known activities of the U.S. Marine Corps was the action of the First Air and Naval Gunfire Liaison Company ( First Anglico), Fleet Marine Force, Pacific, which served from 1950 to 1953. Trained and home-based at Camp Catlin, Nimitz Highway, just outside Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, all officers and enlisted in this prestigious unit were required to have an IQ of 115 or better. First Anglico consisted of 12 teams of 12 men each. Each team contained one officer artillery spotter, one officer Marine naval avaitor for close air support. and one naval officer for Naval gunfire support. Each team had nine communications specialists complete with required radio equipment. Most of us spent numerous days and nights on the Kahoolawe Hawaii Naval Gunfire target Island,in the bunker, spotting Naval Gunfire projectiles. Every U.S.NAVY AND nato GUNSHIP that passed thru Pearl Harbor had to qualify in shore bombardment on actual targets. This included Destroyers, Light Cruisers, Heavy Cruisers and 16 inch Battleships. Almost every Marine regiment in Korea had a First Anglico team in its forward observation post. Marine regiment commanders knew the importance to the ground troops of close support, and First Anglico supplied numerous close support missions. At a later stage in the Korean war, First Anglico teams were stationed on the offshore islands of North Korea's western side, with a six-gun destroyer ( six 5" 50 caliber naval rifles) in support, to deny the communists the use of the coastal highway. Because of the enlisted's high IQ, many later went to the Marine Corps officer school in Quantico, Virginia, and were commissioned. The First Anglico teams contributed greatly to the protection of the ground troops and the success of the korean War.

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First Anglico FMF PAC Korean War (continued)

Comments: Perhaps one of the most elite, and least known activities of the U.S. Marine Corps was the action of the First Air and Naval Gunfire Liaison Company ( First Anglico), Fleet Marine Force, Pacific, which served from 1950 to 1953. Trained and home-based at Camp Catlin, Nimitz Highway, just outside Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, all officers and enlisted in this prestigious unit were required to have an IQ of 115 or better. First Anglico consisted of 12 teams of 12 men each. Each team contained one officer artillery spotter, one officer Marine naval avaitor for close air support. and one naval officer for Naval gunfire support. Each team had nine communications specialists complete with required radio equipment. Most of us spent numerous days and nights on the Kahoolawe Hawaii Naval Gunfire target Island,in the bunker, spotting Naval Gunfire projectiles. Every U.S.NAVY AND nato GUNSHIP that passed thru Pearl Harbor had to qualify in shore bombardment on actual targets. This included Destroyers, Light Cruisers, Heavy Cruisers and 16 inch Battleships. Almost every Marine regiment in Korea had a First Anglico team in its forward observation post. Marine regiment commanders knew the importance to the ground troops of close support, and First Anglico supplied numerous close support missions. At a later stage in the Korean war, First Anglico teams were stationed on the offshore islands of North Korea's western side, with a six-gun destroyer ( six 5" 50 caliber naval rifles) in support, to deny the communists the use of the coastal highway. Because of the enlisted's high IQ, many later went to the Marine Corps officer school in Quantico, Virginia, and were commissioned. The First Anglico teams contributed greatly to the protection of the ground troops and the success of the korean War.

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FIRST ANGLICO FMF PAC KOREAN WAR

Comments: I have written a short article about the use of First Anglico in the Korean war. I will post it here at a later date.

Keywords: First Anglico FMF PAC based at Camp Catlin, Nimitz Highway, Oahu, Hawaii Islands from November 1950 to June 1953. Twelve Teams consisting of one Marine artillery spotter, one Marine Naval Aviator for close air support, one Naval Officer Gunfire spotter and Nine or ten elisted radio operators.

anglico 2nd ROKS HoiAN

Comments: searching for fellow marines.

Keywords: Hoi An

Looking 2nd Marines Anglico sent to 1st Marines

Comments: Sgt Allman was orginally with 2nd Marines and sent to join up with the 1st Marines on August 1950 at Camp Pendleton. Departed USA and arrived at Kobi, Japan. Departed Kobi for Korea aboard a LST. Landed at Inchon in first wave. Liberated Kimpo Air Field. Boarded LST went on to Wanson. Timmy Killean, a marine with the unit played bagpipes at Wanson. Unit continued into North Korea. Sgt Allman was wounded at U Dam Ni on 11/02/1950.

Keywords: Inchon, wounded at U DAM NI 11/02/1950