Long time retired Gunnery Sergeant Charles LaMarr provided us with such an enormous collection of photos and documents. Therefore, though we've not included EVERY item, we felt compelled to publish them as a separate page...with still other links to photos and newspaper articles of the time...1961...he has also furnished..

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First, there are photos of the Hermitage, Marine activities and Marine personnel on board:

Hermitage - LSD-34 from approaching copter	Choppers Landing	"Listen up..."	"I said, listen up...!!!"
HMR-264 Sub Unit1	Charles LaMarr: "It's nice to see that, contrary to so many website depictions, there WERE Marines on these ships."		"Gunny's" day off

Then there was the ship's visit to Freetown, Sierra Leone:

"High & tight, mac.."

Out on the town...

Mix it up with locals...

Say a few prayers...

Check local undertaker...

Generally, avoid the elite...

The HMS Bermuda making its own goodwill stop in Monrovia, Liberia and some of the people on board:

USMC-British Navy Conference 1961

Lonely at the top...

HMS Bermuda >

at anchor >>>

still

Oh, so casual attire

Then those show stopping exibitions we provided up and down the west coast...of Africa, that is:

Cape Town, South Africa

Bathurst, Gambia

Bathurst, Gambia

Chopper Exibition Kakata, Liberia

"Read all about it!"

GySgt. Charles Brice, USMC Bathurst, Gambia

 

And, of course, there are the "Gunny's" two favorite photos:

Freetown, Sierra Leone - April 1961 Independence Celebration The "Gunny" meets the later Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshal

Capetown, South Africa The making of a Gunnery Sergeant *

* PROMOTION 15MAY61 IN CAPETOWN, SOUTH AFRICA.
Major Richard Kurth CO, Solant Amity 1-60.
Promoted GSgt John J. Coughlin; GSgt C.A. LaMarr; 1st Sgt D. M. Bolick
Attending: 1st Sgt Perkins, Sgt Maj and Co Commander Capt. William Boone HMR Sub Unit 1

Oooooorahhhhhh, Gunny LaMarr!!!!

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