The history of Company C, 1st Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment (C-1-23) is a work in progress. Our hope is to talk about the people more than the battles. Our desire is to cover the time from the date of activation until deactivation at the end of WWII.

This history comes directly from the memories and recollections of former company members and is based on their willingness to contribute. We hope that former Marines will continue to share their thoughts and memories of their days as a member of C-1-23. Each company member will have a unique view of the events as many suffered from tunnel vision because their world was primarily limited to their squad, platoon, or similar sized group. We believe this wide variety of viewpoints will yield a clear and well-rounded picture.

We would like to urge all former Company members to contribute their memories, experiences, letters, pictures, documents, memorabilia, and stories to this history. We also strongly believe that family members, wives, widows, children, friends, and neighbors of former Company members have extremely valuable input to contribute such as letters, memorabilia, and their own memories of the experience. We would invite you to send that information to info@c123rd.com and we will go about posting the information on this website.

The original authors of this history are John Seymour and Rowland Lewis with input from Company C Members. In addition, Joline Doersam (John Seymour's daughter), provied word processing services on the orginal version.

John Seymour

Rowland Lewis