He was evacuated to California, and spent 26 months recovering in various hospitals. On January 2, 1944, Bearss was severely wounded at "Suicide Creek" (Cape Gloucester, New Britain) by Japanese machine gun fire. He was with the 3d Marine Raider Battalion in the invasion of Guadalcanal and the Russell Islands and 7th Regiment, 1st Marine Division, in New Britain. He enlisted in the Marine Corps on April 28, 1942, and by July was on a troop transport to the Pacific War. Ed named many of the ranch animals after famous general and battles his favorite milk cow was Antietam.īearss graduated from Hardin High School in May 1941 and hitchhiked around the United States, visiting his first Civil War battlefields. His father, a Marine in World War I, read accounts of military campaigns to young Ed and his brother, but Ed's lifelong interest in military history was jump-started by a biography of the dashing Confederate cavalry general J.E.B.
He grew up on the rugged family cattle ranch, the "E bar S", near Sarpy, Montana, through the depths of the Great Depression. Bearss ( Template:PronEng) was born in Billings, Montana, the elder son of Omar Effinger Bearss and Virginia Louise Morse Bearss.
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