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  1. 07-29-17, 06:47 PM #1
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    Iwo Jima- my grandfather.

    Hello, got some cool items of my grandfather's from my mom's. Thought they might be appreciated here.
    Got a nice pic with a cool newspaper article from 1945, a theater made knife I cleaned up and a perfect copy of Spearhead book. I'll post pics next. I also have alot of original maybe never seen photos from Iwo Jima.

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  2. 07-29-17, 07:11 PM #2
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    Pics, hanks for looking.

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    knife cleaned up

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    the text of the
    article got blurry during upload, not sure what I can do about that. its interesting.
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    Very Nice I'm sure your very proud of your Grandpa Marine's blood flowing in your Veins I was in the 5th Mar Div in Vietnam Godspeed too Yah

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    I am proud, he was my best friend growing up. He past in 2008.

    Than you for your Service and Sacrifice Sir.

    Tried cropping article so I can be read

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    seeing if it works

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    sorry, cant upload a quality pic due to size restrictions I guess, if anyone would like to read it message me your email address.

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    The article is titled PFC Shepard crawled ahead into Japan lines. It talks about the 10 man teams of mine detection and demolition engineers that walked/crawled out into no man's land ahead of the tanks and infantry clearing mines and booby traps and blowing up cave entrances. They pushes all the way to the northern coast and it says their survival was a miracle.

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    It didn't say Japan, auto correct I guess. , everything in the article said Jap. Different time

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