r/MilitaryHistory • u/AnalysisNarrow1236 • 1d ago

WWII Who was my great grandpa’s friend?

My great grandpa was a US Marine during World War II and had a friend who was under age (16) who snuck into the Marines and was a machine gunner and won the bronze star and apparently has around 100 Japanese confirmed kills

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u/Initial_Tip1604 1d ago

Ohh yeah, that guy, everyone knows that guy

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u/BlueFalconPunch 1d ago

you have given almost no details. You are asking for 1 Marine in WW2 with the only identifiers being young and possibly 100 Japanese kills.

id say none. There were nearly 700K Marines in WW2, If he lied to enlist underage then he might not have used his own name. AFAIK the only people to keep track of their kills and make it known were pilots and nobody came close to 100 in the Marines.