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Burnside, Roy

Posted on 14 September, 2021 by in ,

Bio put on computer by Larry Martin 21 December 2018

 

Bio of Andrew Roy Burnside 1924 filmed 1 February 2012

 

Roy Enlisted in the US Navy in January 1943.  He had 6 months of boot camp and CB training before being sent to Port Humenie California in August 1943.  He became a Shellback in late Aug. 1943 when he crossed the equator for the first time going to Guadalcanal in late September 1943.  The combat was over at that time but was bombed  by “Washing machine Charley”   From there he went to Vella LaVella in the Solomon’s  There was still a lot of fighting on that island.  Roy was stepped on by a large lizard on this island.  From there he went to Bouganville BSI  (British Solomon Islands) in the summer of 1944 where his cousin was in the USMC and lost a close friend to a direct mortar round right next to him.  He did not  recover completely many years.  Roy saw a dead Marine who had been captured by the Japanese and skinned alive.  Roy thought that is why the Marine’s took so few prisoners.  Roy being a CB also constructed living area’s for returning American POW’s of the Japanese.

 

 

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