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To: null and void
Does that bring back memories?

Sort of ... I went thru Parris Island in the spring of 1964 ... 19 years after the landing on Iwo Jima. One of the motivational/history of the Corps films we were shown was the amphibious landing and subsequent battle on Iwo. One of the shots taken was by a Marine combat cameraman as a Jap shell exploded in the frame ... he was killed but the film was recovered.

20 posted on 10/23/2006 5:05:18 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: BluH2o
I left Beautiful Beaufort in 1963. (Marine Corps brat, I was 10)

Is that the one with the shell exploding on the deck of a ship? I remember that one.
23 posted on 10/23/2006 5:10:25 PM PDT by null and void (Age and experience -- It makes no sense to get one without the other. - Sundog)
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