Gunny G's Marines History and Traditions: GunnyG's: Battle Cry's "Big Red" Ebert USMC

Gunny G's Marines History and Traditions:

GunnyG's: Battle Cry's "Big Red" Ebert USMC:

Hi Dick;

Just returned from 8 wonderful warm weeks on Clearwater Beach,
FL.

For the record , group seen of the movie "Battle Cry" were
filmed on Vieques Island, Puerto Rico in 1954. The individual "troops" in the group seens were members of 1st Bn, 10th Marines out of the 2nd MarDiv and Camp LeJeune. I joined the unit latter that year, just after my 18th
birthday.

The bearded Marine in the film was our Battalion Sgt.
Major on Richard R. (BIG RED) Ebert.

Big Red as he was known to all was truly one of the most impressive Marines I have ever met. A coal cracker from the Wilks Bare / Scranton area of PA.

Red was both a WWII and Korean War (combat) veteran. A giant of a man, he stood about 6 foot 3 or 4 and ran about 270!

Single, full of piss and vinegar, willing to fight at the drop of a hat, he would blush and turn red when he spoke to a woman.

Saturday night he would ...............
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