Kilo 3/5 USMC
Killed In Action
June 15, 1967 Operation Adair
Issac Martinez Jalomo
Great Uncle
Issac suffered from severe Post Traumatic Stress
and died shortly after returning home
WWII European Theatre
Staff Sargeant
Marcelo Moreno Garcia Jr.
Great Uncle
Camp Carson, Colorado
Co. G 353rd Infantry 89th Division
WWII
European Theatre
Co. L 91st Div 363rd Infantry Regiment
Killed In Action April 18,1945 in Italy at age 24.
On that day, Marcelo's Companys' objective was to take Hill 407, Saddle 404, and Mount Arnigo near the town of Pianoro which was situated south of the Po River Valley on Highway 65. Mt Arnigo was the last mountain between the 363rd and the end of the War. His company, which belonged to the 363rd Regiment, was part of a larger Army Group fighting a controlled retreat by the German 65th Infantry Division. A year before this battle, he had killed 19 Nazi Germans while being wounded twice, once each in the left arm and chest. He had been hospitilized in Italy and had been given the option of returning home or staying with his regiment. He chose to stay with his brothers.
During this battle he had been the sole survivor of his Platoon.
He recieved the Purple Heart for wounds
recieved while serving in the MediterraneanTheater of War.
Marcelo came home in 1948.
Photos courtesy of his niece Tonia Sorola Woodard
Private Manuel Fonseca
Uncle
Hq.Det. 1866th Unit 8th SC.
World War II Era Veteran
Justin Judd Shores Rivera
Turkey, Kuwait, Iraq
Estanislado (Stanley) Sorolo
Picture taken Sept 25, 1940
France
World War II
U.S. Army,
Thomas Jalomo Hutchison
Grandson
Delta Co
1st Marine Training Bn
Currently serving in Okinawa Japan
Domingo Thomas Garcia Gonzalez
Vietnam Era
Felix Flores
World War II
European Theatre
During W.W.II, Germany was destroyed.
Following the end of the war the people of Germany had no leadership, no law or order, and there were many displaced persons. The country was in desperate need of help. The United States Constabulary along with the 1st Infantry Division formed the deterrent to Communism in Germany and Austria.
These were our first "Cold War Warriors". These soldiers performed many of the functions that the German and Austrian governments could not perform.
The United States Constabulary was phased out in December 1952 having accomplished its mission. It had been truly one of the elite forces of the U. S. Army and lived up to its motto,
"Mobility, Vigilance, Justice".
Felix Flores served in this capacity.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.”
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Invictus?
Herman Jordan (left) and friend, Frank.
Uncle
Herman was a PhM3 in the U.S. Navy
1945-47
Served at Parris Island S.C.
Crystal (Fonseca)
Okinawa, Currently Stateside
Crystal (Fonseca) and Husband
Captain Gilbert Guerra
Iraq, Afganistan, Okinawa
John Lewis Blagg
World War II
Army Aviation Signal Corp
Great GrandUncle
Courtesey of a fellow Genealogist