Jack O’Hara, KIA, Age 22, 1944
Lavongai: New Hanover Island Pacific 1944
“Life settled into a routine of launching daily combat missions and aircraft maintenance operations. To break the tedium, some of the Air Marines built outrigger canoes from scrap Corsair belly tanks and used Seabee-supplied dynamite to fish the waters around the island.”
– Marines in the Air
They would write letters home talking of their hopeful return to white picket fences, time with family and friends, hamburgers and cold beer. But, instead they would give their all so we could enjoy those things for generations.
O’HARA, John M., 1st Lieutenant, USMCR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. James O’Hara, 17175 Muirland Ave., Detroit, Mich (na) + O’HARA, John Martin, 24846, VMB443, MAG61, 1stMAW, New Hanover Island, September 11, 1944, killed in action (mc)
Bone Cove Angler 