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By Lisa Potts, CWO5 USMC (Ret.) After forming at New River (Camp Lejeune), North Carolina from October 1942 to February 1943 the Twenty Fourth Marine Regiment was activated at Camp Pendleton. On their first Christmas under the Regimental banner, Colonel Franklin A. Hart proudly commanded – “Members of the Twenty Fourth we have trained hard…
FRONT AND CENTER Vol. 2, No 2, February, 2023 Mission Honoring the legacy of Carolina Marines and Sailors and inspiring future generations. A Message from the CEO 2023 is off to a great start for the Carolina Museum of the Marine. The team that will build the museum is in place: We are moving out…
FRONT AND CENTER Vol. 2, No 1, January 2023 Mission Honoring the legacy of Carolina Marines and Sailors and inspiring future generations. A Message from the CEO Happy New Year! 2023 is going to be an exciting year for the Carolina Museum of the Marine. We have selected Ralph Applebaum Associates (RAA) as our Exhibit Designer. RAA is…
FRONT AND CENTER Vol. 1, No 12, Decemer 2022 Mission Honoring the legacy of Carolina Marines and Sailors and inspiring future generations. A Message from the CEO We continue to make great progress on building a world-class Museum. We are preparing to select a General Contractor and Exhibit Designer and the intent is to have the…
Carolina Museum of the Marine is honored to welcome new members to our Board of Directors: Mr. Keith Byrd, LtGen Mark Faulkner, USMC (Ret), Mr. Frank Guidara, and Col Bob Love, USMC (Ret) – pictured below. Check out FRONT AND CENTER when it comes out in November for their bios. They bring years of relevant…
by LtCol Lynn “Kim” Kimball, USMC (Ret) The Duke of Wellington once famously stated that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton. It can be equally said that victory in World War ll was likewise achieved in many respects on, above and inland from the beaches of Onslow County, here…
by LtCol Lynn “Kim” Kimball, USMC (Ret) Operation Crossroads’ atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in July of 1946 erased any lingering doubts that might have remained following their use at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945 about the monumental impact of these weapons in future warfare. The Marine Corps’ major contribution to Allied…
MCAS New River traces its origins to the early 1940s when the U.S. military began an unprecedented expansion to meet the rapidly growing threat of the Axis powers to our national survival. War plans projected a strategic situation that would initially require two Marine divisions to spearhead a simultaneous war against Germany and Japan. Prior to February…
LtCol L. J. Kimball, USMC (Ret) 9 Jan 2022 In August of 1942, the citizens of Onslow County were cheered by the news that the 1st Marine Division (MarDiv), which had occupied the adjoining Marine Corps base of Marine Barracks (MarBks) New River (now Camp Lejeune), since beginning with the advance party’s arrival in September 1941,…
Although the history of Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River dates to 1941, hangar AS-840, the “King Air Hangar,” so named because the station Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron maintains the assigned UC-12F and UC-12W “King Airs” there, can trace its history back to the Marine Corps’ early expeditionary years immediately after World War I,…
