Charles Columbus Shaw, USMC, 1944/45 on Ulithi (I think). Ulithi was converted by our guys, in a matter of weeks, from an extremely remote and primitive atoll into the largest (for about seven months) anchorage in the world.
Comments:
David Martin Rains: Can I get a Witness?
Nancy Johal Singh: Very handsome:)
Brenda Johnson Cochran: Terry, this has to be your dad...you look so much like him:)
Ruth Baird Shaw: After the Japanese attacked the USA at Pearl Harbor, Pres. Roosevelt declared War (I was 18 years old and Charles was 22.) All able-bodied men were required to sign up for military service and would be called up in time. If they volunteered before called up, they could choose their branch of service. It continued to be scary times and many, many USA casualities.
As more and more of our soldiers were being killed, married men and fathers were being drafted and more and more signed up including Charles Shaw and 3 other men in our community , choosing to serve in the Marinie Corps , incluidng Grover Foster, (Galen's daddy) Charlie Miller and Roy Connell. Charlie Miller was seriuosly wounded at Iwo Jima and was never well again.
BTW...Both Charles Shaw and Grover Foster lived to come home after peace was won by USA and Allies. Both bought houses, next door to each other, in the town where they both were raised. A little less than a year later, Galen Dale Foster and Charles Terrell Shaw were born in the same month. Galen Foster and Terry Shaw played together and had their own language talking to one another (both big talkers...both still are) for the first three years of their life. Then we moved away to Kentucky and parts unknown as Charles' (and my) life was changed as Charles answered the call of God to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Brenda Ron Carroll: Thank you Charles, for your service and sacrifices! Dad so loved his Shaw cousins
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Remembering & honoring my Marine father for Veterans Day 2011
Here he is in the Pacific during World War II probably on Ulithi.
Comments:
Katie S. Kimbrough
that's a good picture!
Dan Bolton
I am going to do the same with my dad, sister and my nephew and brother in law thats still in
Terrell Shaw
"...for seven months in late 1944 and early 1945, the large lagoon of the Ulithi atoll was the largest and most active anchorage in the world..." - Wikipedia
Dan Bolton
I meant to tell you I never watch Fallon and the one time I did guess who was on lol
Terrell Shaw
Actually Dan, you are only the second friend - that I know of - that happened to see the Jimmy Fallon show that night and recognized me on it.
Barbara J. Gale
My dad was a Marine in the Pacific during WWII as well.
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