Hi Trevor...   Different source, but here is your guy.  This is out of the 2nd ID WW I unit history...it is linked below where you can download it.   https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015028779794&seq=366     Young.pdf

Hello everybody.  Recently I acquired my uncle's WWII mementos and came across this patch and pin (among others).  Yes, he was a Bushmaster: From NYC, enlisted in October, 1941.  So he trained in Panama, fought on the Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea and Luzon...  He was in Utsunomiya, too, when the 158th was finally deactivated on January 17, 1946.  Anyway, I came across this site and thought users would be interested...   Both items in the pictures were made in the Philippines.  The pin has the name and address on the back: F.N. Aquino & Sons in Manila      

There is a good possibility that you are referring to Oscar D. Lussier from New York.  Information that I found - in a VERY quick search - is that he didn’t enlist until 1957.   Someone with muster roll access could confirm; or, you could go to your local library and access them there.  Most library systems that I’ve been to offer Ancestry for free at in-branch kiosks.   Edit: I should mention that there was another “Oscar Lussier” from that same area that died in 1947 at 26 years old.  The math sorta works for a Sr / Jr relationship there.  If Sr was born in 1921, and fathered a son at 18 (1939), Jr would have been ~18 in 1957.   Again, would need Ancestry account to answer that - which I don’t have.     A picture of the knife may offer insights.

The Mariana and Palau Islands campaign, also known as Campaign Plan Granite II, was an offensive launched by the United States against Imperial Japanese forces in the Pacific between June and November 1944 during the Pacific War. Wikipedia If t he photo was printed in June 44 then it could have been taken prior to June... The Bougainville campaign (November 1943–August 1945) was a long, brutal World War II battle where Allied forces, led by US Marines and later Australian troops, fought to take control of Bougainville Island from Japan. The key goal was establishing airfields at Cape Torokina to isolate the major Japanese base at Rabaul. While the U.S. secured a beachhead by November 1943.   Definitely not Wake Island as stated by R Leonard.

Please see if Franklin M. Martin of NJ is listed. Thank you.

Great grouping with a twist!

I am in possession of a WW2 USMC KA-BAR Fighting knife with a Leather Sheath. Engraved on the blade in script is the name   Cpl. O.D. Lussier. I have been unable to get any information on this person and would like to return this item if possible to a family member. If anyone can help it would be appreciated.    Thank You,  Dennis Antonucci  

It must have been post war.   In Pennsylvania it was common to chrome captured enemy weapons.   Ive never seen a pistol chromed by the Germans or Japanese.

Hi all!   I won this grouping recently and was able to keep most of this vets items but lost out on a couple small items but glad with with I kept together. Cpl Marion V Faure served with “C” Co 323rd IR 81st ID and was a veteran of the Battle of Peleliu and Philippines. He brought home a Japanese Chop/seal and a set of field glasses, plus a fantastic photo album.