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He left home at age 16 and lied about his age to enlist in the United States Marine Corps. He served four and a half years as a field radio operator.He was stationed in China (Qingdao and later in Shanghai). When the Communist Revolution conquered the mainland in 1949, He was assigned to Hawaii and Japan.
