Championhilz Posted June 10, 2009 Share #1 Posted June 10, 2009 I found this great photo while looking at the Life Magazine WW II collection. It shows Marine Ervin Bonow holding the helmet he was wearing when it was hit by a piece of shell during the battle of Hasting's Ridge on New Georgia. It's amazing he could survive a hit that shredded his helmet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldcop Posted June 10, 2009 Share #2 Posted June 10, 2009 Ervin better stay away from crap games for a while, I think he's aready dipped pretty deep into his luck account. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnicklfritz Posted June 10, 2009 Share #3 Posted June 10, 2009 Cool photo, notice the camo'd Westinghouse liner also! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Baker Posted June 10, 2009 Share #4 Posted June 10, 2009 Ervin better stay away from crap games for a while, I think he's aready dipped pretty deep into his luck account. Dave Agreed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Got da Penny Posted June 10, 2009 Share #5 Posted June 10, 2009 Thats one "wicked" photo. Here's my contribution to the thread .... Also, a LIFE photo. Carey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted June 10, 2009 Share #6 Posted June 10, 2009 You've probably all seen this one before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky 7th Armored Posted June 11, 2009 Share #7 Posted June 11, 2009 Amazing photos and such lucky men, but i dont think the fellow in post #5 was so lucky, RIP. Haydn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunbarrel Posted June 12, 2009 Share #8 Posted June 12, 2009 United States Coast Guardsman with his lucky helmet on D-Day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOLO Posted June 10, 2015 Share #9 Posted June 10, 2015 here's a US M1 with battle damage from the Battle of Hue City , Vietnam War, looks like shrapnel damage from some type of explosion or possibly RPG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted February 28, 2016 Share #10 Posted February 28, 2016 Lets add this one, an unknown Leatherneck, by the looks of the terrain, on some tropical isle in the Central Pacific, in the Marshalls or Gilberts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linedoggie Posted February 28, 2016 Share #11 Posted February 28, 2016 I found this great photo while looking at the Life Magazine WW II collection. It shows Marine Ervin Bonow holding the helmet he was wearing when it was hit by a piece of shell during the battle of Hasting's Ridge on New Georgia. It's amazing he could survive a hit that shredded his helmet. Ervin_Bo...ge__1943.jpg NOT a Marine, a Dogface according to the YANK article this image came from http://yankstories.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-five-day-attack-on-hastings-ridge.html Photographer John Bushemi was KIA on Eneiwetok by Japanese mortar fire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellasilva Posted February 28, 2016 Share #12 Posted February 28, 2016 That goatee is equally impressive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted February 28, 2016 Share #13 Posted February 28, 2016 NOT a Marine, a Dogface according to the YANK article this image came from http://yankstories.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-five-day-attack-on-hastings-ridge.html Photographer John Bushemi was KIA on Eneiwetok by Japanese mortar fire Right you are, he also was awarded a Silver Star, on New Gergia I gather by the 1943 date on his GO, can't find what division he was in, the 37th or 43rd Inf Div. Bonow, Erwin A., USA - Awarded: SS - World War II Bonow, Erwin A. HQ, U.S. Army Forces in the South Pacific Area, G.O. No. 482 (1943) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyCanteen Posted February 29, 2016 Share #14 Posted February 29, 2016 Lets add this one, an unknown Leatherneck, by the looks of the terrain, on some tropical isle in the Central Pacific, in the Marshalls or Gilberts. Pacific..jpg That was a close shave for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted March 3, 2016 Share #15 Posted March 3, 2016 Vietnam, he's Army but unit and date unknown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtpeter Posted March 3, 2016 Share #16 Posted March 3, 2016 That's a great photo of Bonow. He was a member of the 161st Infantry although I don't have any more history about him. Hastings ridge was named after a 161st Infantry Platoon Leader. The 161st was attached to the 43rd division during the early operations on New Georgia before the rest of the 25th Division landed and joined in the fight. Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kammo-man Posted March 6, 2016 Share #17 Posted March 6, 2016 Nice beard and Cammo liner ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 5, 2016 Share #18 Posted April 5, 2016 Charles Tyner USCG, Invasion of Southern France August 1944, his grade given is Fireman 1st Class, not sure on what vessel he served on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MastersMate Posted April 5, 2016 Share #19 Posted April 5, 2016 Found the photo in the October 1944 issue of the USN magazine "ALL HANDS" pg 41. not much more info than what you have. The CG Historians web site has the complete CG history of operations in WW2 available on-line. A quick look at them tonight did not produce the photo in the histories of the Italy or Southern Franc invasion articles. The CG manned ship in the southern France invasions included the CGC Duane, transports Bayfield, Cephus, Samuel Chase, Joseph Dickman. The PCs 545 & 556 were also in the invasion task force. Would that helmet be resting on the vertical helm station of the LCVP type craft ?? If it looks like it, Would place him in the boat division in one of the transports.. Dries up the info sources that I have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 5, 2016 Share #20 Posted April 5, 2016 We appreciate the additional info, the CG crewed ships in Operation Dragoon was important to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted May 6, 2016 Share #21 Posted May 6, 2016 A 327th Glider Inf GI with his holed helmet. CAPTION: The symbol for the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment was a club (3-leaf clover). Ed Pieczatowski's helmet was shot off by a grenadier of the 17th SS Division Götz Von Berlichingen near Montmartin en Graignes, France, during the Normandy invasion. The bullet grazed Ed's skull and knocked him down. Here he is pointing to the evidence of his close escape from death, but we can also see the 327th stencil (Ed was in Company 'G'). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted May 11, 2016 Share #22 Posted May 11, 2016 A ROK Marine in 1969 with a battle field pick up with a major bullet hole in the helmet. How about that Vietnam graffiti he's got on his own helmet huh! Would love to know what it says. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted May 11, 2016 Share #23 Posted May 11, 2016 And a captioned photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 30, 2016 Share #24 Posted July 30, 2016 At Hue, a 1st Bn 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division Grunt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOLO Posted December 17, 2016 Share #25 Posted December 17, 2016 Now that's a lucky Soldier... Pvt. R. N. Wolford of Los Angeles, miraculously escaped death when a shell landed within 20 feet away from his position. He suffered head and shoulder wounds, but the four pieces of steel that pierced his helmet were not fatal. 14 September 1943. 7th Infantry Regimental Aid Station (3rd Infantry Div) Sant'Agata, Sicily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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