This is my grandpa, he’s 98 now. Thank you Memoirs of WWII for recording his story!

@ettajfan5882

Ай бұрын

He is one of the true heroes of our country. Please tell him we thank him for his service!

@gilwhitmore9682

Ай бұрын

We can't say thank you enough for him, and all those that were with him. Glad the angels were with him.

@jayrowe6473

Ай бұрын

I'm glad he's still with us, and I hope he's doing well. Semper Fi.

@dmaextraordinaire8205

Ай бұрын

I offer your grandfather, my sincere gratitude. Please thank him and give him a hug next time you see him. God bless him and America.

@DanielJMathews1

Ай бұрын

god bless your grandpa im a active duty marine and i have mad respect for any and all devil dogs and service members past and present

This is what a real hero looks like.

@shannonobrien9922

Ай бұрын

Unassuming as ever!!!!

@Poetry4Peace

Ай бұрын

Chill shanno

“I’ll be here 100 years if that’s what it takes” Soldiers mindset like that is what made us win the war

@wattsnottaken1

16 күн бұрын

I’m not religious but god bless the Marines and Army Dogs who fought in the Pacific and Europe. We owe them everything

98 years old and remembers his comrades names so clear-so glad his memories are recorded

My grandfather is still alive at 97. He fought in the USN at Okinawa. 🇺🇸🦅⚓️

Two years at war, older in heart, mind and soul than most of us ever will be, but still too young to go to the bar.

@shannonobrien9922

Ай бұрын

Not then......the legal drinking age was 18 then! Plus, overseas they follow local law! I was a US Army brat and went to HS in Germany and I was bar hopping LEGALLY at 16

@roderickstockdale1678

10 күн бұрын

@@shannonobrien9922he said he was 20 when he got back himself and still couldn’t go in a bar…

My dad was there with you,1st Marines! God bless you all!

So thankful for these brave and courageous men who served our Country with honor and dedication!❤️🇺🇸

Mr. Kelley sir I thank you a thousand times for the freedom my family has. We do not take it for granted. Also you sure don't look 98. God bless you.

Amazing story. Thank you for recording it for posterity. Also, 54 magazines = 1080 rounds of 30-06.

@frenchfan3368

Ай бұрын

To add to your worthy comment, he said his BAR never jammed after putting 54 magazines through it. Wow!

@wendielangborders4116

Ай бұрын

Smoking

@mahersalthomas1739

12 күн бұрын

25 rounds in the magazine?

Always remember the fallen and those who served and live today to tell their story 😔🙏

@shannonobrien9922

Ай бұрын

AMEN!!!!!! Freedom IS NOT free

I don't know how these men did it either, but I am thankful every day that they and all those that followed them did. So lucky to be able to hear these accounts from everyday heroes. God bless and keep them all.

Did all this before he turned 21 they don’t make them like this MUCH anymore thank you sir for your service 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👍🇺🇸

@hsaccount_

2 күн бұрын

Well thats because luckily we dont have to. If it were to repeat, they will rise up once again. But yeah, i think back then there were more real men as well.

Thank GOD for these REAL MEN that fought for OUR liberty and freedom! GOD Bless you Charles Kelley.

Truly and different breed and definitely the greatest generation. Thank you for your service, sir! You and your fallen comrades will not be forgotten.

Thanks for your service and thanks for helping preserve our history. I feel like a lot of the younger generation have lost touch with our past. These stories should never be forgotten ❤

It's been awhile! I know it's hard to find them and then get to them as quickly as possible!! Love Yaw

It's sad, all the world war 2 veterans are dying off everyday. Damn, I'll miss the stories, including my dad who lived to be 100 years old.

@roderickstockdale1678

Ай бұрын

Did you get any of his?

They really were the greatest generation. I salute all of them, they're bravery and endurance in the face of appalling conditions just boggles the mind. I dread to think how many nineteen year olds today would fare in those circumstances. I fear not very well at all, assuming they even volunteered. Okinawa has to be one of the most brutal and appauling battles of attrition in history. May I recommend to those interested the superb book entitled "with the old Breed" a memoir by Eugene Sledge. In it, he graphically describes the most horrific scenes imaginable. Those descriptions of his time on Okinawa and Pelilu will never leave me.

Read a book called I think it was 40 days in Okinawa. It was very descriptive. I don't know how they came back without having been affected I don't think anybody came back unaffected. Just reading the book affected me. My uncle died in that battle. Killed by a sniper at the very end of the battle. Rip Omer Lemay

@jessicakcarvalho

Ай бұрын

RIP Omer Lemay!

@hsaccount_

2 күн бұрын

Rest in peace Omer Lemay

Thank you for your continued dedication to our WWII veterans. As a proud daughter of a WWII veteran, I wish my father was still alive to recount his own story. He served in five countries in the European theatre as a 19 year old. God bless every veteran and God bless the United States of America.

Growing up, I’ve always learned that the relationship between a Corpsman his Marines is something special. I’m so glad I joined the fold and became one myself! Thank you all who served, and paved the path for future Docs🤙🏾

My Grandad was 7th infantry Okinawa was his landing. He went from there on a hospital ship to Guam I believe. He was sick for a long time. He got down to 97 pounds. He told his family dysentery when my mom was a kid. When I was a teen he said to me the doctor told him it was nerves. He told me a lot of things that he didn't tell them

Mr. Kelley is a national treasure. He and Joe Pinio and Jimmy Malleson, Goertz, Bobby Monroe and the rest of those gents are legends, Oklowitz and all the corpsmen too

I have listened to a few stories about how these brave men fought in ww2 my heart is heavy with emotion god bless your soldiers

Thanks to all our Veterans who served. Semper Fi. Stationed on Okinawa 20 years later. They paid the price for us.

Another great video, Josh! Thanks for keeping their stories alive. I dread the day our WWII vets are no longer with us.

How does he look that fabulous at 98?! I don't know what I am struck by more- his story or how youthful he looks and sounds! I love that he mentioned the fallen soldiers he knew. It's nice to learn a bit about them as well.

As I say in all my WW2 memoirs, these fighting Men were absolutely the GREATEST Generation!! Thank You All 🙏

Great video. Great hero.

2:17 you know, these stories are always so incredible that its hard to relate sometimes. People today can only kinda do it when they have a modern day equivalent like those marines essentially saying: "we are doing our part but we don't know how you guys ever did it when you didn't have flak jackets". But this little moment is something that i, probably along with most people here, can relate to. Just your mom wanting to say goodbye to you right before you are being send to fight far away for a long time. I can't imagine what it must have been like for those mothers and fathers who's children never returned.

I was so excited to see there was a new video today

SEMPER FI brother. Thank you for your service.

I love this Marines story! How vividly he remembers and recalls it (like it happened yesterday). The emotion… you can hear it in his voice. His 1000 yard stare. Thank you sir for your service and your generation’s sacrifice! 9:16

Great video, Great Man, I can't believe he is 98 years old, he has been blessed. My Father was on Okinawa, 1st Marine Division his mother's birthday was April 1st the day of the invasion.

This is the generation of folks that were around me when I was growing up. The conversations and lessons I learned from these old timers should have been cast in iron and taught in schools in perpetuity. Great men they were and forever will be. Courage and humility are almost non existent today. Hard times forge strong men. You know the rest. God be with us all. Bless you and no amount of gratitude could be afforded to your generation that would suffice. Thank you, sir.

I'm in Flint RIGHT NOW watching this

What an incredible Gentleman, he is an excellent example of the Greatest Generation. 🇺🇸👍🏻

Bless him!! Can fight a war but can't go have a beer. Thank you sir for your incredible story and service. 🇺🇸

Too bad something like this channel wasn't around twenty-five years or thirty years ago. Could have recorded the testimonies of the last surviving Great War vets. If you're old enough, it gives you something to think about, knowing the last WWII vet will soon die. If Grandpa was still alive, he'd be a bit over a hundred.

Very moving account--so glad you got his story! Thx

Thank you WWII Vets! ✝️🙏🏻🇺🇸

The greatest generation of all time.. The greatest war machine ever... There will never be another generation that even comes close to them... Thank you sir for your service,HOOOAH !.

Lest we forget.

Thank you for your service Charlie 🇺🇸💕

Couldn’t even go in a bar when he got back from fighting in Okinawa… war is awful

Thank you Sir, God bless you All 🙏🏼

Everyyyy timeeee i watch these it makes me cry Jesus Christ. So many brave lives lost. Children. Some not even recognized as adults in most governments (17). And most not old enough to drink. But old enough to watch their friends, new and old blow up by mortar strikes & get left in the dirt under the hot sun for days until the day they’re able to retrieve the bodies. God bless these men.

Thank you for these memoirs

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!

I really like this channel and appreciate all you do keeping their memories alive because in the next few years there won’t be any WW2 vets alive.

Very brave man and thank you for your service.

The work you guys do is incredible, thank you so much for documenting these stories, it’s incredibly important, thank you.

God bless you and thank you for your service!!!

Only 20 years later, in 1965, Okinawa was a quiet, sleepy place where trash collectors came in horse-drawn carts. Yet, every time it rained, vestiges of the war would wash out of the soil...bullets, parts of equipment, and bits of uniforms. I was told where I lived was the site of some of the fiercest fighting in the battle. But in 1965, we lived in a palatial home, across from a huge sugar cane plantation.

I wish I was half as hard as as this man.. We live so great right now due to people like you, sir

I served in the Marines Corps from 2004-2011. Did some time in Iraq early on in GWOT. I'm glad to have worn the same uniform. Has men like this. Marines are a different breed for sure.

Thank for all the videos. keep up the good work.

“Jimmy mallison now there was an artist” loved how he says artist bcuz he knew him and what he was passionate about not just some soldier named Jimmy but an artist named Jimmy who had to be a soldier

What a brave man at that age another great story and looks great for his age

If you ever read this Mr. Kelley, hello from a fellow Michigander and thank you so much for your service ❤

Well, here is another 'thank u for serving' and putting your life on the line in hellish conditions. U are indeed one of the greatest generation! 🤟🙂

Thank you sir! You are incredible & your soldier friends too. You are the best! ❤

My Grandpa was in the Navy at Okinawa

Thank you

My favorite channel on KZread. Thank you for finding these vets and recording their stories so they may live on forever now

Thank you for your service

Amen brother, God bless all who served, God Love you.

Thank you Sir

Memoirs of WW2 thank you for another amazing episode Mr. Kelley was one of your best interviews yet and that is saying something keep up the phenomenal work in seeking out the Men and women of the GREATEST GENERATION to get these stories told for all to see just thank you for all this.

❤ what else is there to say? A very moving story to listen to.Thank-you for recording it and to the Marine who so generously shared it. God bless our Veterans.

Can’t imagine having conversations with friends again a common enemy and then surviving the war and knowing/ seeing they perished in the battle. Must hurt like hell

Been waiting for a new episode....finally, another great one!!

Incredible

True American Hero! Thank you. 🫡🇺🇸🙏

What a living legend. I wish I had half the bravery these guys had..

This individual still has a great memory and is very articulate. SEMPER FIDELIS

Great presentation! The film clips were well done and placed.

this video is very emotional

Nice job on this one about this great man.

Beautifully edited video

Parabéns pelo relato herói

Great man God bless him 🙏

I think I can speak for us all... im going to miss these guys when they are all gone.

respect

I truly thank God for this generation. It’s the men like Mr.Kelley who inspire me join the Marine Corps, and answer the call to service when summoned.

These are our national treasures. The Greatest Generation and my family was a part of that! Semper Fi

Respect Semper Fi

Salute

Memoris of WWII have the absolute dream job. Getting paid amazing money to travel the country/world with your entire family interviewing the remaining WWII survivors. Wow, I'd do anything to have their job and make the money they do.

54 Magazines through a BAR non-stop with no jam damn

Thanks!

My grandfather, my dad’s dad, served in Okinawa during WW2. He was wounded and awarded the Purple Heart 💜. He died before I was born. My dad served in Okinawa at the end of the Vietnam war. Supposedly fulfilling a promise to his dad, to pee on the hill his father had been shot on.

5:22 when he said they were all over the place you heard the coldness in his voice

@buzz5969

Ай бұрын

Hes in Japan naturally The Japanese are gonna be ALL OVER the place.

Having spent only a few days on oki as a marine, I would never have wanted to attack that island. It’s a nightmare of heat and jungle… they did it with maggots and mud. What a mess.

An eloquent man

Semper Fi CB.

Tq MoWW2.. only 600k ww2 vets alive and hunders of them died everyday of old age

Great documentary, but I could do without the music

A few years ago I donated money to your channel. I really like your videos. Unfortunately I cannot find the link to donate through PayPal. I don’t do Patreon and I don’t do monthly memberships. I spent more than five minutes trying to figure out how to contribute. 🤷🏻‍♂️