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There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
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Read the book, saw the movie. What a story.....Frank
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Bill Hollinger
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Title of the book? Finnishing up "Point Man" wheening myself off TV after the World Wars Revised History Channel fiasco.
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Two books:
The Great Raid by William Breuer and Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides. I have Breuer's book and the movie, bought as a set Good stuff.
Bob
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Frodo Baggins to Gildor Inglorion, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Last edited by Mark in Rochester; 06-02-2014 at 05:43 PM.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
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Ghost Soldiers was the book I was referring to. The book is written by Hampton Sides.
Bill Hollinger
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I knew Gunnery Sgt Neil Iovino, 4th Marines (China). He was in Bataan when the Japanese
invasion started and was wounded by shrapnel from a grenade. The shrapnel struck his 1903 rifle which caused the butt to hit him in the face knocking out his front teeth. Other fragments struck him below the belt. He said two other marines took him off the field where they were captured. The Japanese sent him to Bilibid Prison where an American doctor operated on him. He spent the rest of the war in the POW camps until rescued by the 6th Ranger Battalion in 1945.
Neil had joined the Marines in 1939 and was sent to China until they moved to the Philippines in late 1941. He died in 2008 at age 90.
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Thanks for the photo and info. For some reason, clicking on Thanks doesn't register 
Real men measure once and cut.
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