WW II Stories
 
William J. Monks, Copl., US Marines, WWII
1945- Charlie Co. 1BN, 3rd Marines, 3rd Div.

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Picture of me on Guam holding my rifle, December 24, 1944 Walter Clausen and I hanging our wash on Chichi Jima. I’m the man on the right of the picture. December 30, 1945

Picture of me on Guam holding my rifle, December 24, 1944

Walter Clausen and I hanging our wash on Chichi Jima. I’m the man on the right of the picture. December 30, 1945
   
Four of us at the 3rd Marine Cemetary, Iwo Jima, Charlie Co, 1Bn, 3rd marines, 3rd Division
Four of us at the 3rd Marine Cemetary, Iwo Jima,
February 19, 1946
L to R- Bill Monks, Jim Curtis, Walter Clausen, John Lucas
Charlie Co, 1Bn, 3rd marines, 3rd Division
Group Picture- First Squad, First Platoon, July 4, 1945
I am the second man on the left in the second row.
   
Coming up from Guam to accept the surrender of Chichi Jima in the Bonin Islands, Central Pacific, October 1945.

Coming up from Guam to accept the surrender of Chichi Jima in the Bonin Islands, Central Pacific, October 1945.

 
Reunion at Gettysburg, 2005
Reunion at Gettysburg, 2005
 

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