Center for World War II: ‘Honoring veterans' Bayshore Courier News Posted:06/23/10
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Lincroft – Gilmon Brooks, who is well known in the Fort Monmouth community, was born into a military family and he served in one of four African American Marine companies in the formerly segregated branch of service at Iwo Jima. Brook's recollections of the Marine landing can be heard on the Center for World War II's website, linked from the Brookdale Community College (BCC) home page. It is one of 35 posted oral histories each with an accompanying video.
Join BCC on June 26, 2010 from 1 to 3:15 pm at Brookdale's, Lincroft campus, as we honor the men and women veterans of WWII's 1945 Last Battles of the Pacific and mark the start of the Korean Conflict in the 1950s. We will be honoring Gilmon Brooks, Tinton Falls, US Marine Corps, Battle of Iwo Jima; Paul Frisco, Middletown, US Navy, USS Cushing, Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa; Thomas Mahoney, Union, US Navy, USS Curtis and USS O'Bannion, Pearl Harbor Survivor and Battle of Okinawa; Carl R. Osterlund, US Navy, USS Astoria, Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa; Herbert Cohen, USS Chaffee, Veteran, Battle of Okinawa, United States Navy and Jeannette Berkery, Hackettstown, Women's Army Corps, Battle for New Guinea and George Waple III, Eatontown, Korean War veteran and author of Country Boy Gone Soldiering. Doors will open at the exhibit hall at 12 Noon at the Warner Student Center containing displays by veterans groups and personal memorabilia collectors. The program honoring veterans will commence at 1 pm.
This program will include period music by Down Melody Lane by musician Barry Rosenzweig of Freehold and singer Susan Seaman of Shrewsbury.
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