Military keyword > robert > Marines photos >  U S  Marine Corps Lance Cpl  Robert Wayne Rapp keeps his weapon ready as he performs a dismounted patrol around his seven-ton truck during a security halt in Al Asad, Iraq, on June 11, 2007
Military keyword > robert > Marines photos >  U S  Marine Corps Sgt  Robert B  Brown, with Combat Camera Unit, Regimental Combat Team 6, watches over the civilian firefighters at the burn pit as smoke and flames rise into the night sky behind him in Camp Fallujah, Iraq
Military keyword > robert > Marines photos >  U S  Army Maj  Robert Holbert takes notes as he talks and drinks tea with local school and Andar Special Needs School administrators during a cordon and search of Nani, Afghanistan, on June 2, 2007
Military keyword > robert > Robert Sparks, former B-24 Liberator bomber tail gunner, 93rd Bombardment Group, Ploesti raid vet, Aug 1st, 1943.  Sometime after Ploesti, Sparky took a 20mm flak round hit in his tail turret over Germany.  After he bailed out, he was taken prisoner when he landed.  He said that the German doctor that removed the chunk of flak from his backside (which he still has) was drunk when he operated on him.  He spent the rest of the war as a PW in camp Luft IV.  Taken on the 64th anniversary of the Ploesti raid, Aug 1st, 2007, in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Military keyword > robert > Receiving my commission from the Adjudant General of Florida, Robert F. Enslin.
Military keyword > robert > This is my Uncle Bob (Robert Lewis) of Winchester, Indiana. The picture was taken at Grandma Nan's in 1962 or thereabouts, located on RR 2 outside of Winchester. The lady is his sister Doris Schaefer. Uncle Bob was an infantryman in "F" Troop 5th Cav during WWII. He served from the Gilbert Islands to the occupation of Tokyo. He was wounded by a shotgun blast to the leg at the battle for the Manila Post Office. He always wondered how the Japanese soldier hit him instead of "Bulldog" Wilson who was standing between them. Uncle Bob had four Pacific Campaign Bronze Battle Stars and two Phillipine Bronze Battle Stars. He was in a lot of s__t but only told of what he could still laugh about. He was only 19 when he was drafted and suffered from PTSD for years afterward.  He was my hero and he was my surrogate father in my youth. I loved him dearly and was fortunate to have told him so before his passing last year. He is now at rest with his beloved granddaughter Chrissy.

Bob was one of five of my uncles who served in WWII. Between them they returned with three purple hearts. All but one were combat veterans. My one uncle was fortunate to remain stateside as he was drafted late in the war. The others weren't so lucky and ended up in the s__t. I have always been thankful that all of them returned.
Military keyword > robert > PNC Robert H. Haley
Military keyword > robert > Myself on the left and Bob Paul. We served together in 1966 in VMFA-312. He was flight-line and I was an electrician. We're both retired. Bob spends time as flight mechanic with the Yankee Air Force out of Willow Run Airport near Romulus, Michigan. I spend a lot of time at the computer and in my yard. That's a P-40 behind us. The picture was taken at an air show at Willow Run on July 8, 2007. This was a  re-union 40 years in the making. Semper Fi, Bob.
Military keyword > robert > Marines photos >  SSG Robert Fogarty - 1985
U S Marine Corps Lance Cpl Robert Wayne Rapp keeps his weapon ready as he performs a dismounted patrol around his seven-ton truck during a security halt in Al Asad, Iraq, on June 11, 2007
Marines photos >  U S  Marine Corps Lance Cpl  Robert Wayne Rapp keeps his weapon ready as he performs a dismounted patrol around his seven-ton truck during a security halt in Al Asad, Iraq, on June 11, 2007
U S Marine Corps Lance Cpl Robert Wayne Rapp keeps his weapon ready as he performs a dismounted patrol around his seven-ton truck during a security halt in Al Asad, Iraq, on June 11, 2007
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