Kurt Barickman Posted July 3, 2021 Share #1 Posted July 3, 2021 This is a a group I acquired out of the woods nearly 20 years ago from the family here in Minnesota and have just recently reacquired it from the person I sold it to.. It is not a Tarawa related group which is normally what I collect but it is such an historical assembly to a member of the Second Parachute Battalion which did the raid on Choiseul until the leadership of Victor “Brute” Krulak that I jumped on the opportunity to put this historic and tragic group back in the collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kurt Barickman Posted July 3, 2021 Author Share #10 Posted July 3, 2021 Beautiful Aussie version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt Barickman Posted July 3, 2021 Author Share #11 Posted July 3, 2021 Proud Paramarine Charles Clow Jr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt Barickman Posted July 3, 2021 Author Share #12 Posted July 3, 2021 Commendation for the battalion for Choiseul raid. Accomplished more for the Allied cause than the Makin Raid according to some historians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt Barickman Posted July 3, 2021 Author Share #13 Posted July 3, 2021 Same commendation for Choiseul but to the Rocket Platoon and for the CO of the platoon. Clow was a member of E Company Second Battalion and the secret rocket platoon was formed from E Company so I am thinking that Clow was assigned to them lugging these experimental and heavy rockets through the miserable jungle of this island in the Northern Solomons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt Barickman Posted July 3, 2021 Author Share #14 Posted July 3, 2021 Card home after the raid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kurt Barickman Posted July 3, 2021 Author Share #16 Posted July 3, 2021 Home to Minnesota after the raid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kurt Barickman Posted July 3, 2021 Author Share #18 Posted July 3, 2021 Proud Mom and aunt I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt Barickman Posted July 3, 2021 Author Share #19 Posted July 3, 2021 This is the cousin whom I acquired the group from; he really looked up to his older cousin still very evident decades later and the love of a family never dies and neither does the pain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt Barickman Posted July 3, 2021 Author Share #20 Posted July 3, 2021 Paramarines folded and broken up and on to F/2/27th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kurt Barickman Posted July 3, 2021 Author Share #22 Posted July 3, 2021 The Division is formed in Hawaii. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kurt Barickman Posted July 3, 2021 Author Share #24 Posted July 3, 2021 Dreaded Western Union Telegram..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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