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Frank Pomroy
WWII
| 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division
He was making a lone stand on Peleliu. He had a bayonet wound, had taken three bullets and was starving and dehydrated. Frank Pomroy had seen dozens fall around him and he was all alone with plenty of ammo but no food or water. After shooting two Japanese who stumbled on his position, he was too weak to crawl over and look for a canteen. Part 5 of 5. (8:20)
Frank Pomroy had left a man for dead on the Guadalcanal battlefield. Everyone agreed that he was dead and they pressed on. But he wasn't and, after almost being buried alive because he could not speak, the two encountered each other in the rear area. This was only the beginning of his sad story. (8:29)
After the Pearl Harbor attack, seventeen year old Frank Pomroy tried to enlist in the Marines but was told he was too young. Undaunted, he and another eager teen concocted a scheme to get in. (6:26)
Boot camp was compressed early in the war to get Marines ready for fighting. Frank Pomroy recalls how the drill sergeant was tough as nails but bought them beer after the graduation.Then he was off to Camp Lejeune, which was being built as the men trained. A long train ride to California gave many of the young Marines their first sight of the West. (5:35)
After a stop in New Zealand where the men made their own liberty, the Marines of the 1st Regiment went to the island of Guadalcanal. It had been chosen for the initial confrontation with the Japanese. Frank Pomroy was ordered to stay on the transport to help unload but an enemy torpedo bomber crashed into it and the crew abandoned ship. Part 1 of 2. (10:10)
Frank Pomroy was on a raft with another Marine after their troop transport was consumed by fire. They were fortunately rescued by a US destroyer just in time to witness the Battle of Savo island, a disastrous defeat for the US Navy. Part 2 of 2. (10:28)
Frank Pomroy had been rescued at sea and was at New Caledonia trying to get passage to rejoin his unit on Guadalcanal. He didn't know it yet but they been all but abandoned by the Navy and were fighting the Japanese with very few supplies. (6:27)
He was on the 37mm gun and he only had 55 rounds to last the night. Frank Pomroy chose his targets carefully and the grapeshot he was firing from what was really an anti-tank weapon was mowing down the charging enemy. Finally the Banzai attacks ended. This was the first defeat for the Japanese in the Pacific. (7:19)
Jeff Lippka
Vietnam
| Navy Corpsman (Attached Multiple Units)
It was slow going at college for Jeff Lippka. He was staring at the draft and, since he had an interest in the medical field, he enlisted in the Navy with the idea of becoming a Corpsman. (5:56)
There was a lot more training after boot camp for Jeff Lippka. First stop was Hospital Corps School and then on to Fleet Marine Force, where he learned the field skills he would need to be a Corpsman in combat. (6:50)
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