CHICHI  JIMA  MARINES

                                       Marine Seal
 

With the surrender of the Japanese at the end of World War Two, the job of the U.S. Marines was not over.  The islands had to be demilitarized and the Japanese forces repatriated to mainland Japan.  In the Bonin Islands, this job fell to the 1'st Battalion, Third Marines, later to become known as the Chichi Jima Marines.

One of the members of this group was Bill Monks, of Fairview, New Jersey and the recollection of his experiences, as well as those of other Chichi Jima Marines, appears as one of the other links entitled "Marine Vignette Number 77"  on the Links Section of my Chichi Jima web site.  It makes for some very interesting reading.  Use your "Back" button to get back there.

Incidently, this group of Marines continues to hold an annual reunion, and I have been privileged to attend three of them, even though I was never a Marine. The year 2003 reunion was held in June in Wallingford, CT and the year 2004 reunion is scheduled to be held in Alexandria, VA September 22-26, 2004.  Visits to the White House and the Quantico Marine Base are planned.  The contact person for this event is:

Robert J. Snyder,
22 Robert Curtis Drive
Gettysburg, PA  17325-7720
Phone  717-337-0358

                                              Chichi Marines1

FIRST ROW:
John Monaghan, Bill Bolinger, Fred Fitzsimmons, Ham Enright, Jerry Candelaria, Chick Holdstein, Gilbert Shuler,
Bob Anderson

SECOND ROW:
Bob Snyder, John Doyle, Bob Hopkins, Pat Crabtree, Bill Marshall, Hank Steadman, Irv Cordrey, Les Molnar
Ken Maga

THIRD ROW:
Mike Coleman, Joe Arnold, Bob Clarke, Jim Leary, John McCreery, John Wick
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 Chichi Marines2

                                                                                Women 

Front Row:
Georgia Harvey, JoAnn Kinney, Audrey Fitzsimmons, Grace Hogan, Mary Jane Smith, Ruth Arnold
Back Row:
Rita  Anderson, Mary Lou Williams, Myrle Snyder, Jane Crabtree, Jo Pellitteri, Regina Enright, Nancy Molnar,
Phyllis Cordrey, Ruth Bolinger, Lucille Harding, Margaret Hoffman

                                                                                 Men
Front Row:
Norton Williams, Allen Flagg, Ham Enright, Bob Snyder, Fred Fitzsimmons, Joe Arnold
Back Row:
Bob Anderson, Vic Pellitteri, Pat Crabtree, John Doyle, Bill Bolinger, Chick Holdstein, Les Molnar, Joe Backfield,
Milt Hoffman, Rhett Harvey