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    Yohouse from a Boot to a China Marine
    Yohouse from a Boot to a China Marine
    Yohouse from a Boot to a China Marine
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    Yohouse from a Boot to a China Marine

    By Norman G. Albert

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    Inspired by his granddaughter who is now also a US Marine, author Norman Albert now offers a biography that tells the story of his time as a marine after World War II in China. Little is generally known about the First Marine Corps Divisions duty during the time from 1945 to1947. Albert, nicknamed Yohouse while serving, recounts his memories of that period, when many marines were killed or wounded and taken prisoner by the Chinese Communist soldiers.

    In Yohouse from a Boot to a China Marine, Albert explains what it was like to be sent with his division to China to disarm the Japanese soldiers. The marines were caught between the Nationalist and Communist parties near the end of the Chinese Civil War, often serving as a buffer between the two. Although the Communists regularly attacked marine convoys for ammunition and supplies, luckily Alberts convoys remained safe.

    Including a copy of the North China Marine publication about the US Marines, this memoir recalls a little-known period in the history of that branch of service, including both their challenges and their triumphs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateMay 26, 2011
    ISBN9781426969843
    Yohouse from a Boot to a China Marine
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    Norman G. Albert

    Norman Albert, a retired US Marine, was born in 1926 and experienced childhood during the Great Depression. He joined the Marine Corps prior to World War II, but remained stateside until being sent to China in 1945. He currently lives in Massachusetts.

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      Yohouse from a Boot to a China Marine - Norman G. Albert

      Contents

      WHAT IS YOHOUSE?

      WHAT IS A WAR

      FOREWORD

      PRELUDE TO WAR

      PARIS ISLAND, 1945

      Visitor from the United States

      Remembered the Unlucky Children

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      Special thanks to my wife, Jan, for typing this manuscript and correcting any spelling and grammatical errors.

      I dedicate this manuscript to the Marines who were killed, wounded and taken prisoners during their operation in China after World War II.

      WHAT IS YOHOUSE?

      Whenever we would stand Aroll call,@ when the men=s names were called they would answer: AHere,@ APresent,@ or AYo.@ To be different, as was my nature, I would answer AYohouse.@ Some of my buddies, to this day, still call me Yohouse, especially Bob Lucas.

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      WHAT IS A WAR

      A war is when a country is fighting against its enemy. While stationed in China to repatriate Japanese soldiers and return them to the mainland, the United States Marines were attacked by Chinese Communist soldiers, which resulted in Marines being killed, wounded and some taken prisoners. Originally, the wounded Marines were told that they were not entitled to receive a Purple Heart because they were not wounded in a war. At a later date, after much pressure, especially by Marine veterans, they were finally awarded the Purple Heart medal. The above information is from an article by Ed Fulwider called AFacts about the end of WW11 in Japan@

      FOREWORD

      My Granddaughter Emily enrolled at George Washington University and joined the NROTC Program intending to serve as a Naval Officer upon graduation and commissioning three years later. During her training, however, a Marine Major took her aside and told her that she was more of a AMarine@ person than a ANavy@ person and assisted her to transition from a Navy scholarship to a Marine scholarship.

      During her studies, she mentioned to one of her professors that her Grandfather was a Marine in World War II and was stationed in China in 1946 after the war. He was immediately intrigued, especially as a Chinese History Professor. He had found it difficult to find any references to that period in our history and asked Emily if I would allow him to see any articles or photographs of my duty in China. I had saved some newspapers called AThe North China Marine@ and had taken photographs of my tour of duty and sent them to Emily to allow her professor to peruse them. Emily then returned them to me (more will be shown in this manuscript).

      This brought back many memories of my time in the Marine Corps and my tour of duty in China. Emily graduated in 2003 and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant…a ceremony that my wife and I attended in Washington, D.C.

      Photograph of Emily as a 1st Lieutenant after graduation.

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      After completing Military Police School, Emily was stationed at MCAS, Cherry Point, North Carolina. Marine officers recently back from Iraq were frequently guest speakers throughout her training and one of her first assignments included preparing 35 junior Marines for an upcoming deployment to Al Anbar Province. She knew that she needed to get to Iraq also if she wanted any legitimacy as a Marine Officer. They were very quickly becoming only distinctions among the Marines, those who had beenBand those who had not. I can relate to her dilmma because after my advanced training at Camp LaJeune, North Carolina, I was transferred to MCB, Quantico, Virginia. The other half of my platoon was sent to Camp Pendleton, California, and then onto the invasion of Okinawa. I had been denied the reason for joining the Marine Corps, which was Ato fight for my country.@

      When Emily was at MCAS, Cherry Point, a company headed to Iraq had an opening for a Platoon Commander. She requested and received the position. Upon returning to MCAS, Cherry Point, from her tour in Iraq, Emily met another Marine Lieutenant named ChrisBshe was his senior by two months. They fell in love and were married the

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