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Stars & Stripes | ICYMI: At 100, WWII and Korean War veteran honored for his place in Marine Corps history
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton has played a major role in military history over the past 77 years, and John Farritor is one of the rare men who has seen that history unfold from the start.
The Vista, California, veteran turned 100 on Tuesday … fought with Camp Pendleton-based divisions in some of the Corps’ most defining and deadly battles of World War II and the Korean War, including at Iwo Jima, Bougainville, the Pusan Perimeter, the Inchon Landing and the Chosin Reservoir.
It was during this retreat that Farritor suffered his only war injury, a wound to the hand from flying shrapnel. He refused a Purple Heart commendation and, to this day, says he doesn’t like being called a war hero. He says he was just a Marine getting the job done. |
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