Man of US 1st Marine Division comforting a fellow Marine who had just witnessed the death of a friend, Okinawa, Japan, May 1945

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Caption     Man of US 1st Marine Division comforting a fellow Marine who had just witnessed the death of a friend, Okinawa, Japan, May 1945 ww2dbase
WW2-Era Location Name Okinawa, Japan
Date  May 1945
Photographer    Unknown
 
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Source    ww2dbaseUnited States Marine Corps via Wikimedia Commons
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Photo Size 2,324 x 2,877 pixels



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1. W Everett Wilson says:
2 Oct 2023 09:32:49 PM

The man sitting was not a US Marine but a A US NAVY Corpsman attached to the first Marine Division. He had just seen the head of his buddy, who was also his co-worker, explode. The man sitting was there saving lives and had no gun. He was Phm3c Everett Charles Wilson. He was my father.

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