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Jim Marvel

Pacific Theater of Operations; United States Army – 1943-1945Jim Marvel

  • 261st Coast Artillery Battalion
  • Served in Greenland
  • Battery commander in the Philippines
  • Unit spent weeks rounding up Japanese soldiers after the bombs were dropped
  • Befriended a Japanese doctor
  • Retired from the National Guard in 1970 as a brigadier general

 

 

 

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