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WORLD WAR II GYRENE PHOTO ALBUM
Company L, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines, 6th Marine Division
part 2
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Ray Ellis standing outside his squad tent. Throughout the Pacific, the canvas pyramidal tent was used to house Marines in camps. Typically, eight Marines were billeted together in each tent with their gear. |
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Some of Ray's buddies pose with a squad of empty beer bottles. Sometimes, units were issued two beers per Marine on special occasions. The 3.2 percent beer was often called "piss water" . |
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Ray (sitting in the middle) with some of his buddies.
Foreground-Horace "Chubby" Frost, from Calif.
Right side kneeling-Lenyel "Shorty" Sumnler from East St. Louis, Mo.
Standing right-H. L. "Warky" Warkintene from Enid, Okla.
Standing left-J. F. "Johnnie" Berry from Virginia
Kneeling left-Unknown
Behind the Marines, laundry is hung on tent guy lines to dry in the sun.
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Marines from L 3/4. Back row L-R: 1stLt Charles Flanery (KIA), GySgt Vought
Kneeling L-R: H. H. Ferdinand, GySgt Robert McCarthy (WIA), Ray Ellis (WIA)
Sitting L-R: Lenyel Sumnler (WIA–Guam), Richard DeCamp (WIA), Paul Ulrich (WIA-Guam)
Note: Casualty information is for the Okinawa campaign (unless otherwise noted)and was extracted from the 6th Marine Division official history.
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Ray served in the light machine gun platoon in Love Company. In this photo, he and some of his buddies pose with their M1919A4 .30 caliber machine gun.
On the back of this photo, Ray wrote: "Warky, Johnnie, me and the baby. Tough, huh? How do you like the palm trees in the background?"
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Another photo taken at the same time as the one above. Ray wrote on the back of this picture: "Me, Ratface and the baby. This is home, but I don't stay there as much as I used to stay at my real home."
Ray sent this and the above picture to his folks back home.
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