John Basilone and Related Topics

Gunnery sergeant

Seventh enlisted rank in the United States Marine Corps, above staff sergeant and below master sergeant and first sergeant, and is a staff non-commissioned officer (SNCO).

John Basilone

The Pacific (miniseries)

2010 American war drama miniseries produced by HBO, Playtone, and DreamWorks that premiered in the United States on March 14, 2010.

Replica Type 95 Ha-Go light tank in the National Museum of Singapore, one of four constructed for the miniseries.

Whereas Band of Brothers followed the men of Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment through the European Theater, The Pacific centers on the experiences of three Marines (Robert Leckie, Eugene Sledge, and John Basilone) who were in different regiments (1st, 5th, and 7th, respectively) of the 1st Marine Division.

1st Battalion, 7th Marines

Infantry battalion of the 7th Marine Regiment of the United States Marine Corps.

Marines from C Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, enter a palace in Baghdad

1/7 Marines patrol through a field in Sangin district, April 2012.

Marines with Weapons Company, 1/7, land during a mission in Helmand province, Afghanistan, 28 April 2014.

John Basilone in his Marine Corps uniform

Lt. Col. Puller, Guadalcanal, Sept. 1942

Famous Marines who have served in 1/7 include General Raymond G. Davis, General James Mattis, Lieutenant General Lewis "Chesty" Puller, and Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone.

Guadalcanal

Principal island in Guadalcanal Province of Solomon Islands, located in the south-western Pacific, northeast of Australia.

Japanese soldiers, killed while assaulting US Marine positions at the mouth of Alligator Creek

During the Battle for Guadalcanal, the Medal of Honor was also awarded to John Basilone who later died on Iwo Jima.

Navy Cross

United States Navy and United States Marine Corps' second-highest military decoration awarded for sailors and marines who distinguish themselves for extraordinary heroism in combat with an armed enemy force.

John Basilone (plus MOH)

Riverside National Cemetery

Cemetery located in Riverside, California, dedicated to the interment of United States military personnel.

Riverside National Cemetery Medal of Honor Memorial

Riverside National Cemetery POW MIA Memorial

The Veterans Memorial at the Riverside National Cemetery

Plaque honoring the Order of Daedalians at the Riverside National Cemetery, with March Joint Air Reserve Base in background

Lena Mae Basilone née Riggi (1913–1999). Sergeant, USMC Women's Reserve, World War II. Widow of Medal of Honor and Navy Cross Recipient, John Basilone. Never remarried and declined interment near her husband at Arlington National Cemetery because "she didn't want to cause trouble for everyone."

A U.S. 37 mm M3 anti-tank gun fires against Japanese cave positions in the north face of Mount Suribachi.

Battle of Iwo Jima

Major battle in which the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and United States Navy (USN) landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II.

The battleship USS New York (BB-34) firing its 14 in main guns on the island, 16 February 1945 (D minus 3)

19 February 1945 air view of southern part of Iwo Jima

19 February 1945 air view of Marines landing on the beach

U.S. Army Soldiers engaging heavily fortified Japanese positions

U.S. Marines of the Second Battalion, Twenty-Seventh Regiment, wait to move inland on Iwo Jima, soon after going ashore on 19 February 1945. An LVT(A)-5 amphibious tractor is in the background. Red Beach One.

Members of the 1st Battalion 23rd Marines burrow in the volcanic sand on Yellow Beach 1. A beached LCI is visible upper left with Mount Suribachi upper right.

U.S. Marines (Left to Right), PFC. J. L. Hudson Jr. Pvt. K.L. Lofter, PFC. Paul V.Parces, (top of blockhouse), Pvt. Fred Sizemore, PFC. Henrey Noviech and Pvt. Richard N. Pearson pose with a captured Japanese flag on top of enemy pillbox.

Culvert serves as command post for 23d Marine Regiment on Iwo Jima

U.S. postage stamp, 1945 issue, commemorating the Battle of Iwo Jima

Sketch of Hill 362A, made by the 31st U.S. Naval Construction Battalion. Dotted lines show the Japanese tunnel system.

A U.S. Marine firing his Browning M1917 machine gun at the Japanese

Two Marines using a "Hotch Kiss" from the Japanese, 1945

A flamethrower operator of E Company, 2nd Battalion 9th Marines, 3rd Marine Division, runs under fire on Iwo Jima.

The CB-H2 flamethrower seen here on Iwo Jima had a range of 150 yards

Lieutenant Wade discusses the overall importance of the target at a pre-invasion briefing.

American supplies being landed at Iwo Jima

Marines from the 24th Marine Regiment during the Battle of Iwo Jima

Harry Truman congratulates Marine Corporal Hershel Williams of the Third Marine Division on being awarded the Medal of Honor, 5 October 1945.

The U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington with the Washington Monument and the United States Capitol in the distance.

Iwo Jima cemetery entrances built by the 133rd Seabees, with the 3rd Marine Division foreward and the 4th Marine Division opposite.

5th USMC Division Cemetery entrance built by the 31st CB with Mt. Suribachi center.

The 60th anniversary reunion at the Japanese part of the memorial

The 67th anniversary ceremony sponsored by the U.S. Marine Corps, the government of Japan, and the Iwo Jima Associations of America and Japan

Commencement of the 71st commemoration of the anniversary

U.S. and Japanese color guard teams stand at attention during the 72nd Reunion of Honor ceremony.

"Iwo Jima", part eight of the 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, includes part of the Battle of Iwo Jima from the point of view of John Basilone, from the beginning of the invasion until his death later in the day.

Jon Seda

American actor.

Seda (left) with Joseph Mazzello and James Badge Dale at a screening for The Pacific

He played the role of Chris Pérez alongside Jennifer Lopez in the movie Selena, and portrayed U.S. Marine John Basilone, recipient of the Medal of Honor, in Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's The Pacific.

Raritan, New Jersey

Borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.

Memorial plaque marking Frelinghuysen estate site and signing of the Knox–Porter Resolution on July 2, 1921

US 202 northbound at its junction with US 206 and Route 28 at the Somerville Circle in Raritan

General John Frelinghuysen House, now the Raritan Public Library

John Basilone (1916–1945), awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Guadalcanal.

Italian Americans

Italian Americans (italoamericani or italo-americani, ) are Americans who have full or partial Italian ancestry.

Landing of Cristopher Columbus (12 October 1492), painting by John Vanderlyn

Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer from whose name the term "America" is derived

Verrazzano's voyage of 1524. The Italian explorer was the first documented European to enter New York Harbor and the Hudson River.

Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in New York City is named for Giovanni da Verrazzano.

Philip Mazzei, Italian physician and promoter of liberty, whose phrase: "All men are by nature equally free and independent" was incorporated into the United States Declaration of Independence

Review of the Garibaldi Guard by President Abraham Lincoln

The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum on Staten Island

The "Bambinos" of Little Italy - Syracuse, New York in 1899

Mulberry Street, along which New York City's Little Italy is centered. Lower East Side, circa 1900.

Italian immigrants entering the United States via Ellis Island in 1905

The Monongah mining disaster of 1907 described as "the worst mining disaster in American history" the official death toll stood at 362, 171 of them Italian migrants.

Italian-Hawaiian woman with a poi bowl, 1909

Michael Valente, recipient of the highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during World War I

Fiorello La Guardia with Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938

Italian American WPA workers doing roadwork in Dorchester, Boston, 1930s

Rudolph Valentino with Alice Terry in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1921

Historical advertisement of an Italian American restaurant, between circa 1930 and 1945

Italian-American veterans of all wars memorial, Southbridge, Massachusetts

Frank Capra receiving the Distinguished Service Medal from General George C. Marshall, 1945

Enrico Fermi, architect of the nuclear age, was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity.

Dominic Salvatore Don Gentile on the wing of his P-51B, 'Shangri-La'. Also known as "Ace of Aces", he was a World War II USAAF pilot who surpassed Eddie Rickenbacker's World War I record of 26 downed aircraft.

Joe DiMaggio, considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time, in 1951

Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, filmmakers whose body of work explores themes such as Italian-American identity, here together with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, are among the greatest modern directors.

Wally Schirra, one of the earliest NASA astronauts to enter into space (1962), taking part in the Mercury Seven program and later Gemini and Apollo programs

Columbus Day in Salem, Massachusetts in 1892

1973 U.S. postage stamp featuring Amadeo Giannini

Enrico Fermi between Franco Rasetti (left) and Emilio Segrè in academic dress

A fourteen year old Italian girl working at a paper-box factory (1913)

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911. The victims were almost exclusively Jewish and Italian female immigrants.

An Italian immigrant making an American breakfast aided by instructional materials from the YMCA

St. Anthony of Padua Church in New York was established in 1859 as the first parish in the United States formed specifically to serve the Italian immigrant community.

Our Lady of Pompeii Church in New York was founded in 1892 as a national parish to serve Italian-American immigrants who settled in Greenwich Village.

Emilio Segrè, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959, was among the Italian Jews who emigrated to the United States after Mussolini's regime implemented an anti-semitic legislation.

Italian Cultural and Community Center (Logue House) in the Houston Museum District

President Barack Obama participates in an interview with Jay Leno during a taping of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" at the NBC Studios in Burbank, Calif., Oct. 24, 2012.

One of the largest mass lynchings in American history involved eleven Italian immigrants in New Orleans in 1891.

Top ancestry by U.S. county. Dark blue indicates counties where persons of Italian ancestry form a plurality.

Little Italy in Manhattan after Italy won the 2006 FIFA World Cup

Much of Philadelphia's Italian population is in South Philadelphia, and is well known for its Italian Market.

The American and Italian flags in Boston's North End

Feast of the Assumption in Cleveland's Little Italy

Gateway to Ybor City on 7th. Ave near the Nick Nuccio Parkway

Sts. Peter and Paul Church in North Beach, San Francisco

Among these was Sgt. John Basilone, one of the most decorated and famous servicemen in World War II, who was later featured in the HBO series The Pacific.