Born in 1954 in Sheffield, England, Jim Moran lives in Yorkshire
with his wife and daughter. Following a grammar school education,
Jim has had a forty-year-long career as a civil engineering
surveyor working on major highway and airbase construction
projects, both in the UK and overseas. Jim has been a student of
the history of the United States Marine Corps, massing a huge
collection over the past forty years. He has assisted Hollywood
productions on uniform and equipment details for Flags of our
Fathers, The Pacific (HBO mini-series) and Windtalkers. Jim is an
associate member of the Second Marine Division Association, US
Marine Raider Association, Marine Corps Association, and US Marine
Corps League as well as being the 'on-board ' historian to the US
Marine Corps League, Det 1088 (UK).
On 25 June 2018, after over 40 years of meticulous research of his
`Beloved Corps', Jim was acknowledged with the great honour of
becoming a US Honorary Marine in a presentation in London by P T
Brent, Director, Marine Corps Heritage Foundation.
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